Drawing with a little paint

So ,next week's Art group is looking at drawings with a little colour/ paint. In the group these often happen when someone just hasn't time to finish the work.But it  defo adds a little more interest when there is clearly a drawing with only part of it painted. Mine, of course , don't go like that because I am actually not drawing anything specific when I start off.....

So , I used heavyweight cartridge so it would take the paint and set off drawing.....,mine generally end up landscapes / trees/ abstracts, or any combination of those. I used water with the graphite, which I love, scraped pencil with a knife and played. Lots of light lines but often that's what there is in the woods.....added in a colour mixed from burnt umber and black. Love that colour......and system 3 's burnt umber is just georgeous,transparent , warm brown....

The size is 42 x 21 cm.It's ok.

The one below is shavings of graphite worked into the paper with the back of a spoon ! Then I wet it all, put on some washes of watercolour but didn't like the watercolour, wanted to use acrylic. Size 36 x 20 cm. I wanted to vary the size and shape of the pieces this week to shake it up a bit....

No 3 below was graphite, water and the acrylic paint dripped in....I liked some of the marks.Want to try darker though and always want to go into gold ! But resist this week, just keep to graphite and paint.

More Dailies. Same techniques, but maybe used more paint. I think it might be a good excersise to transfer one or some of these images into big paintings .mmmmm

Had a play around with abstracted trees. These are 14 cm sq. Always enjoy the smaller ones.....but is there an element of churning them out ? Maybe.......but what does it matter. They are individuals.