"Urban Sketching and Photoshopping"

Having some fun this afternoon with a couple sketches from earlier in the week and photoshop.  The image on top is actually a group of people standing on the sidelines at a youth football game; the bottom is a couple enjoying a fast food meal at a local Jack-in-the-Box. 

"Mall Perspectives"

Stopped in at the mall today and using one of my old ledger books as a sketchbook, worked on some "mall perspectives."  I forgot to put the Jimbirds in.

7x12 Ledger (first entry 1939), Noodler's black ink, pens, watercolors

"Mezzo Thai From the Backside"

 

Mezzo Thai restaurant from the backside this morning while waiting for the art gallery to open. 

 

6x9 Super Aquabee Sketchbook, Noodler's Lexington Gray ink, pens, watercolor

WEDNESDAY SKETCHING

So if I make this GIGANTIC, will it show up?  

I found Dave seated at a table looking at this extremely difficult perspective study in the Kennewick Library and sat down to talk to him about it.  After a lot of discussion as to where to begin, I just borrowed his mechanical pencil (he IS an engineer) and drew this on a very rough piece of watercolor paper.  Not only do you have bookcases, you've got this pyramidal fireplace, chairs scatterer all over and dang if they didn't curve the couch on the left.  Whoa.  Mine is boring compared to their's but I kept it in the pencil.

Library Fireplace Featured in Sketch

The Wednesday Morning Sketchers went to the library on Union in Kennewick this morning to do some sketching.  I was with them and this is what I came away with. 

6x9 SuperAquabee Sketchbook, ink

Library Sketching

 

Went out today with other Urban sketchers to the Kennewick Library and I sketched the lounge area. I was trying a new way of starting a drawing and I was having difficulty with perspective. Anyway, this is what came out on the other side.

Wednesday Morning at Yokes

 

Wednesday am at Yokes on Keene with Nancy and Dave.  This was a fun event as we each did our sketching, and had some great conversation while doing so.  I was quite reluctant to put the black behind these onions, but I knew it would cause them to pop.  Now I'm glad I did. 

 

6 x 12 Antique Ledger Book, ink, watercolor, photoshop

Wednesday Morning Sketching

 

Out on the regular Wednesday Urban Sketchers Tri-Cities Sketch-About. We went to a local Yokes Market and I sketched the produce and soft drink section. The problems I had brought up a big discussion about prospective and how to start and control a drawing. Great stuff and everyone got drawn in and I learned a lot; the hard way.

WEDNESDAY MORNING SKETCHING!

Just some of the lovely bottles of VODKA at Yoke's. 

I am pretty sure it doesn't taste as nice as it looks!

"Wednesday morning at Yokes"

The produce rack at the new Yoke's on Keene is drenched in the morning sunlight streaming through the big east-facing windows on the wall.  I decided I didn't want to try to capture the entire produce section as it is filled with way-too-many details; but I did want to capture the sunlight.  So, using some photoshop to darken the background, I offer up this group of tables filled with pomegranets, melons, plantains, cantaloupe, pineapple, and mangoes.  By the way, no one approached me, no one asked what I was doing, no one told me to leave. 

 

 

 

Emboldened by my new found freedom, I picked up these three pomegranates and took them to a table where I had my coffee and bagel waiting, set them up as a still-life and sketched them.  My watercolors were in my truck, so I tried to capture the values by cross-hatching ink.  Colors were added a few minutes later when I sat in outdoor café area in that wonderfully warm sun. 

  

 

 

 

6x9 Super Aquabee Sketchbook, ink, watercolors

"River Island"

I couldn't keep the serenity I experienced with the WWSkcrawl in Leslie Groves Park out of my head, so I gathered up my art supplies and drove back over the next morning. An absolutely gorgeous set-up spread before me with the island in the river with the distant background along with some people practicing their kayaking skills in the slow slackwatered foreground along the banks. (Sorry, you won't find them in my sketch.)

 

 

11x14, ink and watercolor

41st World Wide Sketchcrawl - by Lapoynte

 View down the Columbia River toward Richland WA, From Leslie Grove Park

 Two Moms drawing at the latest SketchCrawl.

Greg Ashby, one of the local Urban Sketchers.

41st World Wide Sketchcrawl - October 2013

A nice group of us met up this morning at Leslie Grove Park to meet up with 

Yichien Cooper's Art Class to sketch all together.  

I LOVED drawing all the kids intensely drawing - such FUN!

This sketchbook is really too big to fit in my scanner so the copies are not that great 

but it was great practice capturing faces, body language and camo pants!

I finished with a group shot that wasn't as successful

but have determined next time not to make the background so colorful

so the people stand out.

"City Park Images"

 

Wednesday morning sketching with Nancy, Jean, and Dave, I decided to try out my new toned tan, 9x12, Strathmore sketchbook I purchased in Spokane.   Rather than pick out one particular scene, I wanted to do a series of small, thumbnail-like, sketches and this is the result.

 

ink, 9x12, toned paper

WEDNESDAY SKETCHING!

Met up Wednesday morning with Jim, Dave and Jean and sketched at Howard Amon Park.

This is the 'thumbnail' stage looking out towards the river.   

What a beautiful day!!!