Something new from something old
If you saw my post City Hues yesterday you will have seen how I transformed one of my watercolour testing papers, that I tried out my colours on, into a cityscape drawing. Today I'm using a similar technique, taking one of my colour testing papers that I would have otherwise discarded and turning it into something new.
I looked at the marks and colours on the paper and straight away I thought of a seascape, the calmness of the waters leading into giant wave and then a storm. In the back of my mind I had the image of the boats in Hokusai's woodblock print 'The Great Wave off Kanagawa', to me the boats look as if they are about to be swallowed up by the looming wave.
I drew in a range of simple lines to suggest the boats and figures in them using black drawing ink and a dip pen. This image could be read as three separate boats, or as one boat along different stages of a journey.