The Sunday Art Show - impressionist sheep painting & en plein air sketches

This week, I start with several biro (ball-point) pen sketches of sheep, working en plein air on an A4 mixed media paper pad, I stand at the gate to a field on the outskirts of Exeter and draw the flock, several quick studies. Then, I head home and start working on a much larger (A1 mixed media paper) painting with a watercolour marker pen. I add to the initial drawing using washes of inktense pencils dilute with a clean wet brush. After the inktense is dry, I then use Atelier interactive acrylics to bring the painting of sheep in the Devon landscape to life, keeping things loose and gestural in an impressionism style.
See the finished painting here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/sheep-and-landscape-painting-with-dramatic-light-and-purple-sky-mike-jory.html and you can see on of the ball-point pen drawings of a sheep lying down here: https://mike-jory.pixels.com/featured/sheep-drawing-biro-sketch-en-plein-air-mike-jory.html