Bamboo dip pen and water-brush with dilute Lexington grey ink, watercolour, A5  – 20 minutes per stage

More evidence of Jim’s cleverness. He’s combined scans showing three stages of a sketch into one animated Gif image, creating a clear way to see the different qualities that line, shading and colour bring to a picture. Please let me know if you think it’s a useful way to look at a sketch, or if it just induces a migraine. I find it slightly hypnotic…

The subject is the same Hyacinth bulb that I’ve been drawing since Christmas, now in decline with leaves drooping and the shrivelled flowers losing colour.

Update: Filipe commented “Hello Ed. Although the idea is somehow visually appealing, I’d rather see the 3 stages individually. I wanted to observe more of each stage, but found it very difficult as it kept changing and I had to wait for the return of the wanted stage, take a fast peek, and then wait again for its return. It is very distracting.”

So here they are…