A great day playing wet media and big paint brushes... Just what I needed to back into a creative head space. We were asked to bring a object in to draw, drawing from photographs is never quite the same. I figured it would be a good idea to take something that was relevant to my brief of interesting creatures so I took in a wooden puppet dragon, something I picked up in Vietnam. Again in keeping with my concept of translating the traditional into contemporary design I decided to stick with a blue study and spent all day mixing various shades and tones of blue ink and procien dyes to paint large dragons with. this is on lining paper and all the inks bled a lot making it blurry I had very mixed results, getting used to wielding a paint brush again was fun, working on a larger scale then I am used to is quite challenging and puts me out of my comfort zone. I decided to work on different surfaces to see how the wet media worked and it was an interesting ex...