Sketching at a Bus Stop

I'm getting some ideas on how to sketch a dynamic scene so the first thing that came to mind is to observe the activity at a bus stop.  There always are people waiting for their bus to come and there are structures all around that support the scene.  The subject will still be the same - the people in motion and those at rest, plus the static structures all around.

A rainy evening scene at a Madison Ave bus stop.

A pleasant evening at the 5th Ave bus stop in front of the old Lord & Taylor Bldg.

The Meadows at Rockefeller State Park Preserve

On my practice hike last weekend, I did a small sketch (3" x 1") in pencil using a Pentel 8 Multi pen.  Aside from the HB pencil lead, it also has 3 ballpoint tips (black, blue, red) and 4 other colored pencil leads (yellow, red, blue, green).  This trial run was what I imagine I would be doing when I start walking the last 100 km of Via de la Plata/Sanabres Camino route at the end of this month.  I picture myself having more sketching time since I will be traveling solo and not with a group.  Overall, I like how this one turned out.  I think this pen will be very useful in my sketch adventure.

The finished sketch.

I tried sketching some equestrian but they were too fast for me to capture.  I eventually erased that lone rider on top of this page.

Core Drawing Class: Weeks 7 & 8

I decided to paint this pose in oil roughly two weeks ago.  On week seven, we mapped out the desired figure onto a new fresh sheet of drawing paper.  The plan was to transfer this finished drawing onto a tracing paper and use that to transfer the drawing to the canvas.  I didn't have the other materials needed so I finished week seven with this image. 

The finished drawing version to be painted in oil.

On week eight, I brought the necessary materials for the class.  I picked up where I left off last week.  A tracing paper was laid over the drawing and a red pen was used to trace over the lines.  Then on the reverse side of the tracing paper, we used the fine charcoal stick to go over the red line.  It's like making a carbon copy of the original drawing onto the canvas once we draw over on the red lines.  Next, we made the rough placement of dark and lights using one color paint only.  I think it's called "imprimatura".  Here's what the painting look like.  I thought painting in oil is easy but it is not!

My unfinished first oil painting.  

The carbon copy