The bottom one was a speed sketch--Mom came out of the shop in a trice. All I had was one baluster and an indication of the shadows and snow. It was also an experiment in looking for gray. You can see the differences, mostly texture: my .09 2B, a "Tri-conderoga" HB, and the smoothest gray, a Derwent Graphic HB.
The icicles were very hard to draw. Again an interrupted sketch. I finished at home--some of the shade is pure guess, and I missed it. The icicles were in sun, hence the shadows of them. Part of the roof snow that had thawed in the sunshine was in shade--couldn't capture it once I left. Reason for a camera.
"Birch Roof" was sheer fun.
The Park in Winter was from a magazine photo. I took a small bit of a much larger picture and reduced it to three tones. What prompted me to draw it was that it reminds me of Lake Park in Milwaukee in Winter when I was a kid.
The bottom one was a speed sketch--Mom came out of the shop in a trice. All I had was one baluster and an indication of the shadows and snow. It was also an experiment in looking for gray. You can see the differences, mostly texture: my .09 2B, a "Tri-conderoga" HB, and the smoothest gray, a Derwent Graphic HB.
ReplyDeleteThe icicles were very hard to draw. Again an interrupted sketch. I finished at home--some of the shade is pure guess, and I missed it. The icicles were in sun, hence the shadows of them. Part of the roof snow that had thawed in the sunshine was in shade--couldn't capture it once I left. Reason for a camera.
ReplyDelete"Birch Roof" was sheer fun.
The Park in Winter was from a magazine photo. I took a small bit of a much larger picture and reduced it to three tones. What prompted me to draw it was that it reminds me of Lake Park in Milwaukee in Winter when I was a kid.
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ReplyDeleteAlways a student of the tools. The icicles did not strike me as being a 2-part - the snow on the roof seemed very believable.
ReplyDeletebirch roof - why is it that some sketches are really fun and some are drudgery? perhaps the sketching happens before the pencil comes out . . .
lake park - pencils just like winter, they do.