Portobello in a bag
Posted: January 22, 2021 Filed under: Uncategorized 9 CommentsThe doorbell rings often these days because instead of going out we have stuff delivered. This sketch has two deliveries combined in one. The portobellos arrived from Lufa Farms. I loved opening the box and finding mushrooms in a paper bag. Another delivery was from Goulet Pens. I’ve been waiting for some bottles of de Atramentis ink in brown and black. The ink is as advertised: very quick drying. I filled my Ackerman pen immediately to try it, and I love how dark it gets when I use a lot of pressure on the pen. As for the mushroom, it had to be drawn quickly before it got sliced and cooked into a pasta dish.
Shari Blaukopf's Sketchbook 
Amazing detail in a humble mushroom! And the perfect color👍
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It was a humble but giant mushroom. And very delicious too!!
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De Atramentis braun ink has been my favorite one for awhile. It’s nice to see how you draw with it. Amazing drawing!
Many sketchers use black ink but I often find it too dark and too precise in my sketches. Perhaps it is something to do with my own colours (blond with blue eyes) 😉
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Hi, Thanks for writing. A sketcher friend recommended the brown ink so I tried it and I love it too! I can see why it’s your favourite. It may become my favourite too!!
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I really like that brown, I presume sepia, good looking mushroom I wish we could get deliveries like that!
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Margaret, it’s called de Atramentis Document ink, in brown. I love the colour because unlike another Walnut ink I have which is only light brown, this one does get really dark. So nice. And the mushrooms were delicious. I feel fortunate that we can get deliveries from Lufa Farms which sells their own local greenhouse vegetables and other treats like these mushrooms. They were amazing.
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I think I missed dinner!!!! Any leftovers? Thanks for the info on the ink. I still have not persued inks. Just finished a whirlwind workshop on pastels which is not my thing…but I wanted to challenge myself. Satisfying because it is very tactile. I felt like I was part of the pastel stick. However I have issues with the dust. And the cost of good pastels….way too much.
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Good Morning dear friend Shari,
I love mushrooms very much. But this is a costly in India.
There are many varieties.
The one you drawn is Exotic Mushroom and costly, One Kg is 20 US $.
And also depend on size too. Mostly we get a normal Rose flower size.
This sketch is amazing.
I have lot of your sketches pending to comment.
Just few days I was bit lazy and now, your sketch files heaped up.
I am feeling like appearing for examinations during student career.
I don’t know when I will clear all these files.
But I will clear them.
Regards and blessings.
Uma
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This is a lovely drawing to me! The soft lines are very etching-like. Your lines, especially where they go around the curved edge of the cap and the gills, really convey the texture of “mushroom”. I bet it was fun, and hard, to capture those narrow shadowed places between the gills.
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