cold and windy, but got in a half-hour sketching
Tag: drawing
#512 Street sketching
N. 52nd Street May 12
A couple rough sketches…
Sketching 52nd St. El Station
A quicky and another, not very good… an afternoon drawing. If I could get myself up to draw in the morning, could go out again in the afternoon. I don’t want to stop. Tomorrow, the building across the street, 52nd and Market.
Store 54th St
Again… the drawing turns out ok… but I ruin it with the finish.
Posting to show progress
Sometimes you fail…
I had a good drawing… but pretty much ruined it. Paper (Canso: Sketch Esquisse Croquis) is not good for water color or wash, unless applied fairly dry for details. Stick with pencil for this sketch book. Get something better for more finished work. But it was a lovely day to spend a couple of hours in the warm spring sun!
Across the street from A-Space. Ink, water color.
Urban Street Sketching/ May 6, 2016
A quickie from my porch in West Philly. 5″ x 6″ Pen & ink, water color wash. The blue sky was wishful thinking… 10th day overcast and cold.
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Gorilla Friend and Crow Feather
What’ll I draw? What’ll I draw? Sometime, you just go with what’s in front of you… anything works to get one started. My youngest son, who’s not a kid anymore, had a menagerie ‘friends’ when he was a child, most of them, like this little Gorilla, stuffed, some– creatures of the imagination (Red Rhino and the Blue Gnu)… It was like a running repertory theater. Destined from the beginning to be an actor/director.
Sketch of A-Space Anarchist Community Center
O-1 liner pen & Neocolor. A rough sketch for practice.
Stuff I like to draw–rubble in vacant lot
.01 Staedtler pen … also did some courtroom drawing this morning, cop dragged a women from her home, wrongful arrest– Acquittal! Michael Coard is a warrior for justice.
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