Sunday, July 14, 2019

The pedestal

Looking north by the front terrace of the NY Public Library, I saw this pedestal and thought it could be a good subject for a 30 minute sketch (36 minutes to be exact).  Once I got home, I tried applying a watercolor wash.  The sketch book paper wasn't meant to be used for watercolor but I tried playing with it anyway.  The end result was this.




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