Tuesday Casey and I had our weekly art afternoon, this time at her place and since it was such a beautiful day, we decided to go out into Amboise and sketch some people. It was sunny and bright, we enjoyed a coffee, moved to new spots every so often, searched for a new pen she wants to try out, got sunkissed and lastly, looked for a birthday gift for a mutual friend, which we couldn’t find…some people are just hard to buy a gift for. I hope I’m not one, I adore gifts! Once again a great day, although the sketching truggled a bit. Here are my results. See Casey’s as well at http://fr.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Agz0ThsyaL8P0qvejInpNJXD9QY-?cq=1
17 comments:
- Dave said…
- Nicely observed sketches! What materials did you use?
- artín said…
- beautiful sketches. same question than dave…
- phthaloblu said…
- These are so beautiful and full of life. Wonderful job!
- Africantapestry said…
- Hi, thanks for the nice words..I used black pen, no 01. I always use a thin point when I sketch these type of sketches, since I don’t make single lins, but I keep my pen going all the time. If I use a thicker pen, it is just a black blob after a while. Then I gave the sketches a monochrome wash later.
- caseytoussaint said…
- T6hese are really wonderful. I love the wash – it adds a lot!
- Teri C said…
- Wonderful sketches. so full of well-observed life. You two sure had fun together.
- Kay Cox said…
- You had a very productive day. These are such nice sketches. What fun you two must have had.
- Deborah said…
- These are great. Wonderful gestures and I really like the washes you colored them with.
- Karen said…
- Nice job with these, Ronell. The monochrome wash really works great.
- Jana Bouc said…
- I really like this style with the monochrome washes. They’re quite lively and expressive.
- Emma Pod said…
- Very nice sketches and washes. They guy with the glasses looks a bit like Clint Eastwood! Dontcha think??
- Carole said…
- I also like these, especially the chap with the dark glasses. I was going to ask how you did the wash on site, but you’ve answered my question if you added them afterwards. They do work well.
- Felicity said…
- It’s wonderful when EDMers meet up! I’m going to Google Amboise and see where you are. Lovely sketches, I love that monchrome wash effect!
- MrsSnowy said…
- Terrific sketches – and so many of them for one outing. Just lovely. Have you tried using a waterpen for washes on location. If you sketch with a non-waterproof pen you can just drag the water over the lines to create the wash.
- Fanta said…
- Wonderful, Ronell.
- Fanta said…
- There’s a broken link in Casey’s address. Try copying this into your address bar: http://tinyurl.com/2re5jy It should take you there.
- Africantapestry said…
- Thank you for the lovely comments, everybody…
Fanta…I fixed the link to Casey, I think it works OK now, thanks..
Ronell
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