Landscape Investigation 5

This piece is based upon a memory I have from when I was very young of looking out from the top of a hill across a sound to a group of islands. It was strikingly beautiful. The balance between the dark shapes of the land and the brightness of the sky is what I wanted to emphasize in this piece.

I used my typical technical ink pens and a brush pens to make this piece, as well as a graphite pencil to lay out a sketch. It is on bristol board.

This piece was done in a hurry, so there was not a lot of thought that went into it. I did not have a plan for what kinds of designs I would put in the hills, so I simply went back to previous investigations and used similar techniques in an effort to practice those techniques in hope of improving.