It is time to get this going again. It’s been almost a year since I posted anything here. It has been a fun and busy year with the birth of my son last summer. Here is a plein air oil sketch that I did just before the record breaking snow melted up here in New England.
Category: Plein Air
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Fallen tree in snow
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Ogunquit Beach
Here is a watercolor sketch from my new neighborhood. After living in landlocked Atlanta for 2 years, I’m enjoying spending time at the beach. My oil colors are still with the movers but I brought my watercolors along to use in case of emergency painting withdrawal.
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Decatur Postcard
I love to paint quick “plein air” oil sketches of my surrondings. After 2 years in Decatur, GA, I had accumulated a number of sketches with no real outlet for them besides this sketchblog. When I saw that the town had a juried competition for a postcard design, I put 6 of my sketches together into a design. My design won, and now the postcard is being sold around Decatur. The design includes this painting of a mill tower by the falls in Lullwater park on the grounds of Emory Collage. That is the only painting I didn’t post here yet, even though I worked on it a while ago.
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Bridge at Decatur Waterworks
Atlanta and Decatur have an abundance of little parks to discover. Since I’m moving away soon I organized a final painting excursion with a friend of mine. We found an old stone bridge which interestingly was spared all tagging and graffiti that was found on other structures in this park.
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43rd World Wide Sketchcrawl
Saturday was the 43rd world wide Sketchcrawl. The plan was to meet in Piedmont park on a drizzly afternoon, this time I only saw one other sketcher. It was a nice day out and a welcome break from portfolio gathering and resume writing. I have long wanted to paint this old bridge that brings the Beltline through the park. One time I looked up and saw this tiny crawler on my canvas. This inchworm blended perfectly into the painting, and then I knew I had done pretty well with my color mixtures. By the time the next Sketchcrawl comes around, I may well be in another city where I hope to continue the Sketchcrawl tradition.
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Trees in Neighbor’s Yard
Here is a oil sketch I did a little while ago. These are two beautiful trees in my neighbor Charles’ front yard. I thought I might revisit it to finish, but I like the sketchiness of it. Besides, it is always more fun to just start a new one.
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Sketchcrawl 42
A group of sketchers met at the Oakland cemetery in Atlanta for Sketchcrawl 42. It was a cold day even though the sun was shining. I managed to do a quick watercolor and pencil sketch of a tomb before a few of us retreated to a cafe to warm up and sketch indoors where I pulled out my ipad and did a quick study of a coffee cup using Artrage.
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Snow in Iceland
Here is another travel sketch. This one was done looking out the window of the house I grew up in and where I’m staying in Iceland over the holidays. This one was done using Procreate on the iPad mini with a Wacom iPad stylus.
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Americano at the Vatican
Here is a quick sketch I did last month while traveling in Rome. It was lovely to sit down, rest tired tourist legs and enjoy an ‘americano’ and sketch away.
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Afternoon at Lullwater
Last weekend I went to my favorite painting spot in my neighborhood armed with my painting gear and a square canvas. The sun was coming in and out of clouds while I painted which meant less painting time and more breaks in between. I was pretty exited to see a big old turtle emerge from the water a couple of times.
