The Mourners

Experimenting with textures and contrast here, and using a lot more darks than I usually do.  This was really just supposed to be a study of trees, but I somehow got the idea to stick the figures in there..for contrast, I guess.  I'm not sure where the colonial costumes came from; I guess because I'm reading The House of Seven Gables...?

I burned through two Hunts 101 nibs and a crow quill doing this.  It's a lot of lines.  Pretty darn sick of it by the time it was done.

The original is 11x14, and is done with dip pens and brush and india ink.