A Messy Desk

The Nor'easter is making a mess outside.  Rain, wind, but no snow. Inside, here's a messy home office desk. I have to sketch it.

Jar Label Recycling

In emptying the dishwasher this morning, I found the RAO's label mostly intact and easily peeled off the jar.  Could it be a good paper to play with?  Back to Google Maps view and playfully marked down the lines. Finally adding colors from my DS Essentials 6 color palette.  It was okay and I think I like what I'm seeing!  

Playing with colors

Think about the possibility of ruining a nice ink sketch by adding some watercolor to it... (I've seen it happen many times, I'm averse to doing it).  Well, as they say, the more you practice the better it gets. So that's what I'm doing here. Practice(3x). 

I'm playing with the six colors in my DS Watercolor Essentials set and I very much like the waterproof fountain pen ink!

  

Tree Sketch Study

Inked on 2/25/2018.  It was a grey day when I tried sketching sketched this tree across from where I parked my car at the RT. 15 Greenwich NB Service Plaza.  So many things to learn just by looking.

Size:  4 in X 2.5 in  
Paper: Strathmore Toned Tan 80lb Paper 
Pen:   Pilot Technica Hybrid Pen 03

Practice Sketches in Ink

Porto Symposium is still several months away but I'm starting to study and warm up my sketching skills in perspective.  A couple of small sketches below from a re-creation of a scene inspired by a recent FB post by Eduardo Bajzek.

Pentel Hybrid Technica 03 and Pentel Water Brush.

Making use of down time.

Well, I couldn't put it off anymore.  The pain over my right shoulder really bothered me the last three nights.  I acquiesced and drove myself to the ER.  After two X-rays were taken, I was sent to a bed and made comfortable with a pillow under my right arm.  That helped me sketched with ease the hallway before me.

There were curious passers-by.  Some admiring the beauty and simplicity of what I was doing.  Words of encouragement from some.  Even terrific wonders expressed considering I can still sketch with a problematic right shoulder.

I'm okay.  No worries.

The Greenwich Hospital ER Triage area.

The Frick Collection Sketching Weekend

The Frick Collection

Last weekend, the NYC Urban Sketchers met at the Frick Collection.  The current exhibitions I saw were, "Murillo: The Self-Portaits"

and "Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored". All sketches done without pencil pre-marking.  Using the cold press watercolor paper and the Platinum Carbon Ink Fountain pen, I sketched and followed how each painting hang on the wall. Now you just need to rotate the below image. 

Here is an impression of a J.M.W. Turner painting "Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening" using a Sepia Micron 01 pen.

See the small arch suggesting a hint of the Enamels Room and the West Gallery before it as captured in my sketch from the Oval Room where the Veronese Exhibition is displayed.  Straight markings to paper using Pilot Technica Hybrid 003 pen.