So it was then that I really started thinking about this as a technique. Sure, it probably wouldn't work for something I wanted to be bold like the strawberry, but it could work for other things.
One thing that I remembered that I have, is a lot of pictures from my grandmother's farm. They are mostly just random images of old objects and such, but I think they're interesting and they have meaning to me. So I wondered how it would work to draw the random objects as studies using a micron pen or something, and then go over them with watercolor. The images are not especially colorful, and using true and exact colors wouldn't be very interesting, so I instead figured using simply earthy tones over the entire page would work okay. That way I could do a few, and they would be tied together not only by their relations as old farm objects, but also in technique.
Thus, I have decided to do ink studies of random farm objects, both from personal pictures, and then through the use of online pictures as well if necessary. I don't know that I would even stick to just objects, I might do things like old farm buildings as well. But, anyway, the ink studies, then shaded with cross hatching, and then lightly washed in earthy tones using watercolor, to give and old, rustic, and nostalgic sort of feeling.
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