In both of these sketches, I worked very slowly, using the grid and I had to force myself to keep going, keep looking and then suddenly, whoosh. The sketch revealed itself to me. Thrilling in a nerdy way.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Out and About on Location
If you are going to urban sketch, you have to get out of your own house. So I went into the backyard, and then on Vancouver Urban Sketchers meet up down at the Vancouver Museum. I chose to wander down to the Maritime Museum instead, to check out the St Roch.
In both of these sketches, I worked very slowly, using the grid and I had to force myself to keep going, keep looking and then suddenly, whoosh. The sketch revealed itself to me. Thrilling in a nerdy way.
In both of these sketches, I worked very slowly, using the grid and I had to force myself to keep going, keep looking and then suddenly, whoosh. The sketch revealed itself to me. Thrilling in a nerdy way.
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Susan
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your sketches completed for Liz's online class. Really like your handling of the watercolors, and the exciting compositions that you achieved.
Keep sketching!
Carmela, a classmate from SketchingNow Foundations
Hi Carmela. Your comments are just the sweetest ever! Thanks for taking the time to go to the blog. As you can probably tell, I am very excited about my personal breakthrough. Do you have a place where I can see your work? And what continent are you from :)
ReplyDeleteSusan,
DeleteI received your insightful comments--thanks for visiting my blog. Yes, Liz's class is worth doing again to fix the techniques in our minds. As you may have found out I live in Sunnyvale, California. So we are both Pacific Coast denizens. I visited Vancouver a number of years ago after a ski trip to Blackcomb/Whistler. That whole area of BC is spectacular. I hope to get back to it again. FYI: I'm surround by hi-tech businesses here--Google, Apple, Yahoo, etc., but we do have nice nature hiking, as well as views of the the San Francisco Baylands.