Stopped by a Estabrook one morning, just couldn't stand the same view all the time. The building on the left looks really twisted, but hey, that's what I saw.
Dropped the shading bend for a bit.
Bags are good because they tempt you to just keep shading and shading, slowly ruining your sketch with each new stroke. This was a lesson in self control, and "Dustin's Aha!" moment of artistic reduction.
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Nice winter scenes. I thought the pic in the tutorial was an imported mono-tone watercolor. Here it is! I like your tonal scale. Good feel on the winter and cold and snow covered trees.
ReplyDeleteThe unshaded pic--sometimes that comes of necessity--no time. After a while that way becomes likable. I like that upstairs windows. Reminds me of my youth. Nice detail wtih a minimum of lines. Multum in parvo.
Wonderful bag! Great reduction of the too busy details! I like a lot your un-flat cast shadows. Softer light, as all cast shadows should be. Mine are too black. Painters rarely make shadows black. They fill them with color, subtle green grays, blue grays, sienna grays. Your pencil technique achieves the mandate: "Let the light in the shadows."
Scrolling down the pix I said, wow, who did that - I like it. 'Course I have a partiality toward trees...
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