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Lily Pond at Balboa Park
Our plein air class met at the Balboa’s Botanical Garden today. I sketched there but by the time I left I had a very over done sketch. Later when I came home I used my overdone sketch and a photo … Continue reading
Flowers and Figure
We worked on quickly capturing gesture with a minimum of lines during the first portion of the figure drawing class this morning. Then we had several 20 minute periods of time to capture a figure using gesture and to place … Continue reading
Editing Sketches with Apps
This was an interesting afternoon. I went back and edited some of my sketches from the week with Procreate, Snapseed and Photos, all apps on my iPad. In the sketch above I adjusted the tables in front of the two … Continue reading
Posted in Deliberate Practice
Tagged Deliberate Practice, Gouache, Photos, Procreate, Snapseed
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Pumpkin
Procreate, an art app for the iPad, recently had a major update and I thought that it might be fun to work in it this evening. After sketching a pumpkin on black paper with a white pastel pencil and gouache, … Continue reading
Hallway
I noticed the light reflecting along a hallway in Liberty Station this morning and took a photo. Later when I did a small 9 X 9 inch gouache sketch of it, I noticed how much I like the way the … Continue reading
Lunch Break
I started to draw the round table tops on an empty lunch court and then two people came along for a late lunch. Of course I tried to squeeze them into the sketch. This is a gouache sketch with some … Continue reading
Posted in Body Language, Groups Interacting
Tagged Gouache, La Jolla, Lunch Court, San Diego
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Elephant
This is a pastel line sketch with a some gouache for color.
Deliberate Sketching 