‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Colorised Collage‘ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
I made a colorised Collage to show the beauty of our natural world. Each butterfly you see within the collage is a unique individual digital artwork.
The intricacy required for these artworks is all the more satisfying following the results. Personal quote: “this is a minute technical detail, however, that i got the two hairlike trails on the butterfly’s tail makes those works perfection to me“.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Blue Light‘ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Blue Light – I imagine this as the wings of dragonflies.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Reddish Brown‘ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Reddish Brown is soup and strength.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Red Tipped Orange’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Red Tipped Orange is a firefly and the madness of manmade flames.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Blue-Green Magenta’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Blue-Green Magenta [to me] is a vinyl album cover with a fictional creatures wings.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Greyish-Black’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Greyish-Black is a beauty I try to comprehend.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Muted Grey’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Muted Grey is the voice of an angel you cannot hear, yet it never stops calling.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Orange Tipped Green’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Orange Tipped Green is fruity drinks.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Mosaic Blue-Green’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Mosaic Blue-Green [to me] is Beyond Words. Pure chance through the construct of careful skill.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Dark Lined Veil’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Dark Lined Veil flutters around a wedding celebration.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Magenta Tipped-Strong Red’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Magenta Tipped-Strong Red is a delicate proclamation to the hierarchy of planet Earth.. to do.. to change things for the future.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Original’ [June 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm].
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – COLLAGE” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Inspired by Andy Warhol I decided to produce colour versions from my “Galaxies Reverberation #3″ series of works. I carefully worked with computer editing software to produce the most vibrant colour contrasts and definitions.
Whilst these were all created to be visually stunning, I specifically chose representations to give each embossed work its own personality. The original work has much meaning to the symbology, therefore I retained certain characteristics within each individual piece.
I envisage these as beautiful naturally dyed aluminium plate embossed art pieces.
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Natural Turquoise” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Natural turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Light” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Bright Green” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“bright greens emerged as a group of environmentalists who believe that radical changes are needed in the economic and political operation of society in order to make it sustainable”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Red” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.”
(*please see my note below regarding the definition for this colour)
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Silver” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag and atomic number 47.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Pastel Blue” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Pastels or pastel colors belong to a pale family of colors, which, when described in the HSV color space, have high value and low saturation.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Dark Blue” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Dark blue is a shade of the standard (h = 240°) blue.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Purple” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Light Orange” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Orange is the color in the visible spectrum between red and yellow with a wavelength around 585 – 620 nm.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Lime Green” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Lime is a yellowish green color. It is the color that is halfway between the color chartreuse green and yellow on the color wheel.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Darkness” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Darkness, the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Strong Magenta” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Magenta is a color made up of equal parts of red and blue light.”
I hope you love each and every piece I made with intellectual effort and artistic inspiration.
(* regarding the artwork ‘Red’, its hex colour value is #ff5500, RGB value is (255,85,0). #ff5500 hex color red value is 255, green value is 85 and the blue value of its RGB is 0.
The process color (four color CMYK) of #ff5500 color hex is 0.00, 0.67, 1.00, 0.00. Color #ff5500 contains mainly RED color. I appreciate some viewers perceive this as international orange or pure orange. Personally I much rather perceive the colour #ff5500 nearer to the red spectrum with some orange for descriptive purposes.)
All quoted words for the artworks colours are courtesy of Wikipedia.
The Unfathomable Artist is not affiliated to any political party, activist group or any populist movement.
All colours were chosen without prior reading from the quoted Wikipedia pages. It is all pure chance colour selection beyond the artistic visual qualities.
“Lion at Rest – Original” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2475 x 2934 pixels.
Immediately shown above is the Original pencils drawing of “Lion at Rest”. I then proceeded to make five digital artworks from the Original. Four individual colour compositions in embossed format – ‘Silver’, ‘Green’, ‘Blue’ and ‘Black&White’.
The fifth piece formed ‘Collage’ which included all four embossed colour compositions together at the four corners with the ‘Original’ placed in five of the central Collage squares. You can see these artworks in this blog article below.
My pencils drawing was made within 32 minutes starting with a blank canvas without prior study.
The Lion lives at Chester Zoo in the UK.
My embossed versions are inspired by Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species artworks.
“Lion at Rest – Silver” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 2409 x 2868 pixels.“Lion at Rest – Green” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 2409 x 2868 pixels.“Lion at Rest – Blue” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 2409 x 2868 pixels.“Lion at Rest – Black & White” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 2409 x 2868 pixels.
Here is my beautiful Collage version, immediately below:
“Lion at Rest – Collage” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 3264 x 3264 pixels.
I feel that “Lion at Rest – Collage” is such a lovely, strikingly stunning artwork, I hope you do too.
The originating picture for this Lion was taken on 22nd July 2023 at 1449hrs. Here it is:
“Lion at Rest – Photograph” [22nd July 2023, 1449hrs] courtesy of the person whom took the photograph.
I hope you enjoy all these Conservation inspired artworks.
“Cygnet follows Swan – Original” [19th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with HB, 8B and charcoal pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2884 x 2465 pixels.
These two beautiful swans graciously passed me as I walked by, just beyond the Nature Reserve in a leisurely grass filled area. Whilst passing I found their way utterly enthralling and simply had to take a photograph. Immediately I knew this would become a new sketch.
The sketch was made within one hour of starting a blank canvas.
My sketch features row upon row of ‘M’ grasses, an ‘M’ bush (originating in the actual photograph itself, see below), Van Gogh style outlines of the swans (heavily pronounced like fruit in a bowl), whimsical illustrative leafy details and individual character to both the swan and the cygnet.
I made three digital artworks from the Original sketch: EMBOSSED, STARRY NIGHT and COLOUR DOTS.
Here is the first digital artwork made, ‘EMBOSSED’:
“Cygnet follows Swan – EMBOSSED” [19th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from an Original drawing, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2808 x 2333 pixels.
‘EMBOSSED’ has ideas of life paths, our spirit, ascension, soul and body. I carefully aligned the 3D overlay imagery at approximately 30 degrees, level with their first bodies legs. This gives a sense of upward-forward motion. My signature, the ‘M’ grasses ‘writings’ and the ‘M’ bush continues with this 3D overlay theme.
Each and every digital artwork I produce is an intricately balanced artwork piece in its own way. Personally I feel each digital piece I make should represent one unique artwork in a specified physical format.
For instance, print, sculpture or textile.
“Cygnet follows Swan – STARRY NIGHT” [19th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from an Original drawing, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2884 x 2465 pixels.
‘STARRY NIGHT’ is a beautiful colour rendition from my Original sketch. I felt the leaves above the swans heads had somehow become the sky. For my love of Vincent’s art I had to honour his works in the title of this piece.
The blue-green colour scheme is delightful, I loved this as I played with a varying palette to create the nicest looking composition for this piece. I see this as a rug, cushions, curtains or tapestry! It looks so very textile-like.
“Cygnet follows Swan – COLOUR DOTS” [19th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from an Original drawing, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2884 x 2465 pixels.
‘COLOUR DOTS’ represents technology and innovative human thinking. The colour details within this piece can be seen by zooming in on the image.
If you cannot zoom in, I will show you. First though let’s take a look at the original picture itself. The originating photograph was taken on 11th July 2023 at 1841hrs, shown immediately below:
“Cygnet follows Swan – photograph” [11th July 2023, 1841hrs] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist with smartphone. (Please CLICK on this image if not shown as a rectangular image)
A very cute scene of adult swan guiding its cygnet, exactly as composed in my sketch. They both seemed oblivious to me as I passed by them. The adult swan was focused getting to wherever it wanted. The adult did notice me though.
Shown below is three unedited zoomed images I cropped from ‘COLOUR DOTS’ to show you the beauty within beauty of an artwork:
“Cygnet follows Swan COLOUR DOTS Body Composition #2” (Please CLICK on this image if not shown as a rectangular image)
My pencil lines become abstract ideas: a topological map, computer machine code, engineering macrocosm, an ancient settlement. Whatever you want this to be.
With all three cropped versions you can now clearly see the colour dots! Here are the exact hex colours #FF34FF (magenta), #0CFF0C (green), #3737FF (blue) and #5DFFFF (aqua) just to highlight the main colours.
“Cygnet follows Swan COLOUR DOTS Grass-Brain Composition #1” (Please CLICK on this image if not shown as a rectangular image)
Grass-Brain looked kind of Matrix-like. This is actually the zoomed head of the swan with grasses overhead!
“Cygnet follows Swan COLOUR DOTS Signature Composition #3” (Please CLICK on this image if not shown as a rectangular image)
In Signature Composition my name is recognisable of form – completely unchanged besides the computer filter used to produce a new work from ‘COLOUR DOTS’. I then manipulate images to make the most pleasing compositions.
I have a professional computing background, therefore it is natural for me to use computer software in the production of my digital works.
I made a similar concept of ‘artworks from an artwork‘ with my oil painting “Creative Mind” in September 2018. For that blog article please click the link here: “Creative Mind” including crops of the full image.
“Angry Owl #2 – Original” by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, pastels, charcoal and acrylic on 10in x 12in canvas pad.
“Angry Owl #2 – Original” is probably a selfie on his smartphone.
“Angry Owl #2 – Digitised” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
“Angry Owl #2 – Digitised” found himself in computer circuitry.
“Angry Owl #2 – Black & White” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
“Angry Owl #2 – Black & White” walked onto the set of a 1920’s silent movie. Quickly he assumed this cunning mask to conceal his distinctive looks.
“Angry Owl #2 – Pixelated” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
Caught up by mistaken identity “Angry Owl #2 – Pixelated” found himself in a Police line-up. ‘Pixelated’ was his disguise so you wouldn’t recognise him.
“Angry Owl #2 – Solarised” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
As you can clearly see “Angry Owl #2 – Solarised” turned his face to the Sun. He wasn’t even on holiday at the time.
“Angry Owl #2 – Tracing Paper” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
A keen student of H.G. Wells The Invisible Man, “Angry Owl #2 – Tracing Paper” went to art class in high school to perfect blending into any surrounding. I think by now you would all agree he is quite brilliant at camouflage.
“Angry Owl #2 – Montage” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
“Angry Owl #2 – Montage” was released by secret services in order for the public to formally identify him, amidst all his aliases. We do not know where “Angry Owl #1” is either. Last information we have is that “Angry Owl #1” was placed into a refuse bin for no reason whatsoever.
To help identify “Angry Owl #1” here is the last known photograph:
“Angry Owl #1” [August 2010] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, pastels on board.
Please do not attempt to approach “Angry Owl #1” or “Angry Owl #2” as they are able to horizontally rotate their necks at extreme angles. Also, they are absolutely lethal to harvest mice.
Special skills: Ability to listen to you under one foot of snow.. whilst hovering airborne!
If you find “Angry Owl #1” please contact Matt The Unfathomable Artist as he is willing to trade one of his best currently available sketches for the safe return of “Angry Owl #1”.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – TRACE” [27th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork derived from an original sketch in blue ballpoint ink pen and sunlight yellow pencil.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – TRACE” finds me thinking about nature, rabbits, animation and music. How about you? What do you think looking at this artwork?
The original sketch (not shown) for these digital artworks in this blog article took me 20 minutes to produce. It was done spontaneously with very quick pen and pencil work to emulate the Van Gogh style for movement.
I am very happy with the artworks and the original, inspired by a Van Gogh drawing. I would like to mention that the artworks are produced from an original sketch and photograph by myself.
The photograph is actually shown at the end of this blog article.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – Black & White” [27th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork derived from an original sketch in blue ballpoint ink pen and sunlight yellow pencil.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – Black & White” reminds me of space and science-fiction. What about you? How do you feel looking at this artwork?
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – COMMAND” [27th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork derived from an original sketch in blue ballpoint ink pen and sunlight yellow pencil.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – COMMAND” is powerful. I am reminded of 3D structures, electricity and the sense of touch. How about you? Do you have any particular feelings or thoughts as you view this artwork?
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – photograph” [4th July 2022, 1935hrs] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
Hopefully I have brought the beauty within this landscape into my sketch and digital artworks, inspiring you in some way.
“Lakescape Feelings #1” [20th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with H, HB, 4B, 8B, sky-blue and charcoal pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3092 x 2659 pixels.
“Lakescape Feelings #1” was produced in one draft of approximately half an hour. I had literally just seen a homely photograph of Picasso with his beloved dachshund dog. Instantly I searched for a photographic composition then readied my pencils and a canvas.
The photograph was taken on 27th January 2021, here it is:
“Lakescape Feelings #1 – photograph” [27th January 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
I feel this artwork is somewhere between Impressionist and Abstract in art classification terms. The trees were made using my seismic waves style of drawing. Though not ‘perfect’ seismic waves in the way I usually produce. Perfect seismic waves are each drawn in one continuous line across the page.
For my seismic waves works I am quite specific with this. I feel this is being true to actual seismic waves produced with seismographs.
Here though in “Lakescape Feelings #1” I wanted the sense of seismic waves yet retaining the idea of trees. I guess this is my “Turner” inspiration at artmaking.
Creating the defined sense of something, obscured through rain, light, distance or some other optical artifact. Beyond pure abstraction itself of course.
Again, this artwork picks up on my use of blank canvas space. The pertinence of this artwork is linked to reading a news article regarding water sewage pollution in corporate business on.. that.. very.. day of 20th May. Water companies no less.
A notable quote in the article read “The whole thing stinks”.
You see, I have a “to do” list involving a multitude of environmental and globally structural things that I feel is very important to drive in the correct direction for world citizens.
“King James VI & I Oak Portrait Two” [18th/19th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with H, HB, 4B, 8B and sky-blue pencil, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3176 x 2749 pixels.
“King James VI & I Oak Portrait Two” [shown above] was produced in two drafts. The first draft took 28 minutes 58 seconds. The second (final) draft next day took 7 minutes 40 seconds, tidying a few branches and adding further depth to leaves. A total of just under thirty-seven (37) minutes in all. I promptly signed the artwork afterwards.
Each artist has their own ‘standard’ in terms of quality. For me, “Leafy Hollow” and this sketch “King James VI & I Oak Portrait Two” exemplify a ‘perfect’ artwork near effortlessly with regards to the time taken to complete from start to finish.
I view these visual works for the speed they are produced similar to an artist writing a chart topping song in 20 minutes.
To understand my reasoning here, it took me hours upon hours to get “Malevolence upon Trees” to the standard I hold every.. single.. time.. for my artworks. You can see “Malevolence upon Trees” here https://theunfathomableartist.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/malevolence-upon-trees/. The intricacy and complexity of the latters pencil work is clear though through all those extra hours.
Personally I happily delight whenever an artwork reaches ‘the standard’ much more quickly. This is more about efficiency as an artist than anything else. I noted Andy Warhol’s interest to produce masterpieces quickly. So too Basquiat and Monet.
Therefore I have sought to somehow emulate this work ethic when producing new pieces, if possible.
For instance, a professional actor can often absorb lines they need to learn for a role very quickly. Whereas an untrained person would take much longer to do so accurately. We could imagine professional translators and PA’s having a comparable ability. As an artist I view the swiftness of my working as part of the profession itself.
Of course, such beauties as the Sistine Chapel, time-honoured sculptures and Realist oils should not be hastily made. Often impressive intricacy and complexity requires reasonable time.
Here is the photograph inspiration for my latest sketch:
“King James VI & I Oak Portrait Two – photograph” [19th May 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
I entitled my latest sketch as ‘Portrait Two’ since I class “James I VI Oak – Autumn Landscape” [27th June 2022] as the first ‘portrait’ of this magnificent 1612 Oak tree. Whereby both sketches do not feature as part of a wider Landscape composition.
“Lake Path in Street Lamp Light” [14th/15th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with H, HB, 4B, 8B, sky blue, sunlight yellow and charcoal pencils with charcoal stick signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2949 x 2535 pixels.
“Lake Path in Street Lamp Light” was completed in three drafts totalling fifty-one minutes in all. The first draft felt like only several minutes had passed.
The photograph was taken on 2nd October 2022. From this I knew I would produce an artwork since the composition looked wonderful. It is the sort of composition artists enjoy making.
Lots of elements to create interest. Different lights, sky blue glimpses, leaves dappled under the lamps, a hardly perceivable metal fence and a sense of theatrical mystery.
“Lake Path in Street Lamp Light” is in the Impressionist style with some chance peculiar features.
Here is the photograph for my sketch:
“Lake Path in Street Lamp Light – photograph” [2nd October 2022 at 1928hrs] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
As per my usual art working for quick drawings I sketched straight from the photograph onto the canvas without prior study.
Interestingly I have ran along this pathway many times for leisure. I have visited this area since childhood with warm affection for all the surrounding beauty.
My sketch also picks up on how I personally viewed the pathway that evening. With some details more discernible in the darkness than they are from the photograph.
I wanted the shadows to look impressive, artistic and as delicious as possible. My three drafts took 37 minutes 07 seconds (all structures and shapes defined), 2 minutes 44 seconds (added one line detail to a wall) and 11 minutes 06 seconds (made the street lamp lighting effect the following day) to be precise.
“Orchard Tree in Hay Meadow” [9th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, quick sketch with H, HB, 4B and 8B pencils signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3043 x 2596 pixels.
“Orchard Tree in Hay Meadow” was completed in just two drafts of 25 minutes and <15 minutes respectively. Just under 40 minutes in total.
Over 25 orchard trees were planted in Hay Meadow this year, 2023. Interestingly when I sketched “Wooden Walkway with Birds Feet” on the 5th and 6th January 2023, the orchard trees had not yet been planted. Standing from the same wooden walkway perspective, you would now see the orchard trees to the right.
I took various photographs, deciding upon this composition as one of the most artistic. Since these planted orchard trees are quite young (approximately several feet to twelve feet in height) they have a tree guard cage with an irrigation system around each tree to help them grow.
I believe this sketch is of a plum tree.
Here is the composition for my Orchard Tree sketch:
“Orchard Tree in Hay Meadow – photograph” [evening of 16th April 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
Next we have a sketch of Ridge Willow, immediately below:
“Icy Ridge Willow” [12th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with H, HB, 4B and 8B pencils signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2856 x 2415 pixels.
“Icy Ridge Willow” was completed in the first and only draft in just under 27 minutes.
The photograph was taken on 21st January 2023 along with several other beautiful shots of the Nature Reserve in a misty fog. Including a short video of Meadow One, Wildflower Meadow.
For those interested in having a look at these, here is a selection of the finest compositions, starting with “Icy Ridge Willow – photograph” itself:
“Icy Ridge Willow – photograph” [21st January 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
I loved the icy swirls on the ground. I knew in January I must sketch this photo.
Ridge Willow is south, directly adjacent/part of Hay Meadow.
“Wildflower Meadow Entrance no.1 Left – photograph” [21st January 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
It is approximately 200 yards to the trees you see farground, from the gate.
“Wildflower Meadow SW Jan 2023 – photograph” [21st January 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
Birds sing and nest in these trees. Top left there is a bat that flies nightly.
“Wildflower Meadow SW – photograph” [21st January 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
This looks towards the gate entrance to Wildflower Meadow. To the mid-left is where “The Curious Face in the Pond“ [23rd Oct – 7th Nov 2021] was derived. The pond would be frozen on this day in January.
“Wildflower Meadow North – photograph” [21st January 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
Here you see the King James VI & I Oak of 1612 (prominent tree, left).
“Wildflower Meadow WN – photograph” [21st January 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
This faces west, with the fused horse chestnut tree to your left, the King James VI & I Oak of 1612 to the right, facing north.
“Hay Meadow Ground January 2023 – photograph” [21st January 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
Am I the only one believing this photograph to be somewhat cool? Ice and snow, really cool.
“Wildflower Meadow Entrance no.2 Right – photograph” [21st January 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
This photograph is slightly right of the central composition I produced in my sketch “Entrance to Wildflower Meadow” on 23rd May 2022. I thought these misty-foggy shots were interesting enough to include both here on my blog.
If you feel you could make a sketch from any of my photographs I am more than happy for you to do so.
Finally here is a quick video of Wildflower Meadow:
Hope you enjoyed my blog article, sketches and short video.
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