First Practices with Warm Colours

This was one of my first attempts using warm coloured inks. I started this one by taking a large paintbrush an pair OMG a strip of water through the middle. I then added various beiges, oranges and browns and let them run down the water. This not only let the colours mix and bleed through the page, it also left some of the thicker ink at the top which dried, giving more texture to the piece. 

Also, by mixing the browns and other colours, the brown spread out and dried on the top, almost looking like dry, cracked earth. 

The parts at the bottom where the ink has branched out was achieved by blowing on the ink (using a straw would be much easier). This helped the ink rapidly spread out and then join to other lines of ink. 

After it had dried, I worked back into it using a fine art line pen and a blue pencil. This gave more definition with the shapes and also created contrast against the warm colours by using a cool colour.