This is a Uni-ball drawing with watercolor. I tend to paint dark, so it was a real effort to paint this as light as it is. It reminds me a bit of Pete Scully's stuff. ( http://petescully.com/sketchbook/) He's a guy from Urban Sketchers who has a very simple coloring-book style of ink and watercolor. His newer stuff is more painterly, but I have always enjoyed the simplicity of his coloring-book approach.
Try as I might to tweak my scanner's colors on Gimp, I couldn't get the yellow right. The reason in the first place that I wanted to add color to this drawing was because the Paneras buildings are striking with their painted stucco. Boldly colored exterior walls are not that common around here. The yellow was pure Yellow Ochre right out of the tube. It doesn't come across that way in the reproductions.
Mom went in to get bread and I drew what was in front of me, including my car reflected in the window. Mom came out with a bag of bread before I was done. While she was shopping at Woodman's, I went back to check the colors. I forgot the blue-green stripe. I guessed at it at home. The shadows on the windows are not shadows but reflections of the undersides of the awnings.
Watercolors have a charm all their own. In real life they have a luminosity from within, the light bouncing off the white paper back through the transparent colors. Not strobe-screamingly luminous. Subtly luminous. Nice. But not reproducible.
PS I didn't yet erase my pencil color-notes. You can erase right through watercolors, unlike the colored ink sketching pens.
