This is a half-hour traditional-media pencil and gouache sketch in my 5 x 8 Moleskin, with a little digital finish thrown in. In the original, the model's left arm didn't read right. So for the first time ever, I took a picture of the painting with my iPad camera, imported the image into the Procreate… Continue reading Mixing It Up
Category: Drawing
IPad Sketching in Chicago
Friday at the Palette and Chisel open studio I tried my first iPad sketches from the figure. This is the best of three attempts. The light lines are the first drawing, then I made a new layer and came back with a thicker line and started roughing in the shadows. Obviously, there's a lot of… Continue reading IPad Sketching in Chicago
Color Studies
Now for the real fun—I hope. After all those squares à la Josef Albers, this exercise is more along the lines of a real picture (exercises are from David Hornung's book, “Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers”—see previous posts). The parameters are to use 6 or more colors, each twice, in order to get… Continue reading Color Studies
Back to Chicago
Bored with using charcoal when I got to the last half hour of the evening open studio at the Palette and Chisel, I decided to do this small (10 x 8) gouache sketch in a new Moleskin sketchbook. It's messy, but it was fun to do. I had trouble with the sketchbook paper because it's… Continue reading Back to Chicago
Work In Progress – Ipad Drawing
I took photos for this picture 4 years ago. I also made an oil sketch at the same time. The scene is along the river outside Union Station in Chicago on a nice summer day. The large reddish object in the background is part of the Adams St. bridge abutment. The river is “off-stage” to… Continue reading Work In Progress – Ipad Drawing
Color Studies
After doing color studies to make one color look like two based on value, then on hue, then saturation, and finally all three, I came to the final exercise in this section of David Hornung's book, “Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers” (see previous posts). In this exercise, he asks you to make two… Continue reading Color Studies
Ipad at Mother Fool’s
An Ipad drawing I started at Mother Fool's coffee shop, then took a picture with my phone to use to finish the drawing. Here's the photo: I'm working on shapes, color, and, on the Ipad, mark-making.
Poster for Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale
Just as I was fooling around with a new app for my iPad called Inkpad, Alliance for Animals asked me to do a poster for their participation in this year's Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale event. So I got to trot out my rusty old vector drawing skills learned over many years of frustration with Adobe… Continue reading Poster for Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale
Flowers for Easter
Some tulips for spring and Easter weekend that I originally bought for Lesley's birthday. I drew the sketch with my new Pilot “Young Rex” (dumb name) fountain pen with mixed Waterman black and brown ink, and then watercolor over that. I didn't realize how architectural the vase is until I just looked at the picture… Continue reading Flowers for Easter
Chicago On the Ipad
To complete my spring-weather theme, here's Chicago in the rain (specifically Starbucks on State just north of Chicago Ave.). Actually I started the picture last fall sitting at the window counter, and then finished it from photographs. The beauty of rain is the great reflections. This picture is also part of a series I started… Continue reading Chicago On the Ipad
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