Chatting with my peeps over at the Sketching Forum and i came up with an alternate solution to my small portable Winsor Newton 1/2 pan traveling watercolor set. Combing through ebay turned up a lot of student watercolor sets that were perfectly viable, save for the junk paint. So I picked…
I went out and went after sky and water studies in watercolor after finding those things to be the least convincing in my first outing. Here are a selection of attempts. It’s an interesting problem trying to figure out how to deal with water. Watercolor is going to require a…
I’ve been threatening to make the conversion over to color sketches for some time. This is the first real watercolor sketch from the meer, of the (now familiar) copse on the southern shore. It’s clearly emulating the vernacular of the ink washes. And it should. Nice first step. Definitely need…
A nice bout of weather saw me in with all my gear at the meer today for a few hours. Continuing to drill into the copse of trees on the southern shore and work on complexity and abstraction. i’m using a combination of wash and ink work. And in two…
A quick cold bounce down into the 40s again today made for a short trip to the Meer. Sitting in the cold is not welcoming to wet media, so i took a step back to brushpen and marker. The thing about complicated subject matter, like landscape is that there is…
Thought I’d share with you some of the process involved in creating an identity mark for Marathon Social, a start up social media public relations firm. The client wanted a bold, clean and corporate mark that had an active tone to it. Below is a look…
A return to plein air sketching with the moderate weather at the park. Spent a couple of hours at Central Park on Wednesday patching together a two page panorama of the southern shore. Rough work and super rusty. But back in the saddle. Can’t wait to find out where…
Not NOT drawing. But drawing Nothing. Well ok, Not NOTHING. But bramble, thicket and backgrounds. Detritus. These are things that you cheat on in painting. That most people cheat on in painting. The Ruskin-ites would skoff at the lack of clarity and certitude. But every other painter I enjoy would…
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