A day in the Countryside

After a sweltering week the weather cleared and we were treated to a wonderful day perfectly timed as I had planned a day in the countryside around Otterville with my 'sketchy friend' Karen...

Old abandoned houses, barns and derelict tobacco drying sheds were the order of the day.

This is obviously a working barn very well kept and the land around it was like a lawn ! I have to research the quilt like pattern on the wall I saw several places that had these.

Beside the barn was an old water tower that I couldn't resist ..

Further to the left were several tobacco drying houses so I continued my sweep of the area making a triptych of sorts with this rendition..

Back around to the front where my car was parked I decided to attempt an 'close up' of the old farmstead that is rapidly crumbling as Mother Nature takes back what is hers. I have drawn the whole frontal facade previously.

Then time for lunch , this series took about 2 hours.
Then we began the long, slow drive home on the back roads looking for possibilities and found this one.

It seemed like a fitting end to a great day

Enjoy
Alan

Red ..

I cannot resist picking up leaves anymore than I can resist trying to paint them !

The blues of the shadows went wonky, so imagine blues in the shadows because they are there ... 'onest

A day out with the KW Urban Sketchers at the Stratford Theatre Archives..

Surrounded by colour and I chose graphite pencil !
:-)

Gaius' Closet  (well a small portion of it) from "The Merry Wives of Wives of Windsor"

Horse Torso from "The Two Noble Kinsmen" 2002

Urban Sketchers KW in Victoria Park

Met up with the Urban Sketching crowd in Victoria Park, Kitchener today. I must admit I almost stayed home, hiding in the AC ... but I didn't

 The Rotunda .. There was a flag flying but..

Fluid hot pressed watercolour paper 9 " x12"

Sennelier watercolours
Noodlers flex pen
TWSBI Demonstrator fountain pen
Noodlers carbon Black Ink
Noodlers Lexington gray Ink

Wolf Howl Pond - Watercolour

and so it goes, you see something and try to tease the meaning from it..
Wold Howl Pond has done this to me and so the search for the image, the meaning continues.

I am getting closer though :-)

5" x 7" watercolour on Fluid hot pressed paper

Some new watercolours:
Sennelier Aqua Mini half pan set
New brushes:
Raphael soft aqua 2,4,and 8

They all came in a little kit from Deserres.ca
 :-)

Perspective... the eternal struggle

I hate perspective, my renderings always look .. awkward.
Yes I know how it's supposed to work and how to do it but it never 'looks' correct.

So I keep trying .. ;-)

So this one started out as a pen and ink rendering and ended up as a little watercolour
(it's about 6" x 3"), using QOR watercolours and trying to work in purples, fushia and violet into my shadows.
I think the angles look a little better but.... 

Alan

Barn on 32

I spent a Curry's gift card on:

a couple of Hot Press 140# watercolour blocks by Fluid
A new Micron 01 permanent pen
and a Signo white gel pen

Then I put them to work ...





























This was on a 6" x 8" sheet


Comments and Critique always welcome..
Alan