On the last two cells of this matrix I experimented with washes. Usually, I begin with details. That makes it more difficult to paint in a uniform background. In a few days, I’ll see how the details work out.
I tried some new colors and painted #6 image on my original Fantasy on a Street Construction Site matrix of 8 sketches. I used some metallic watercolors and highly saturated colors from a couple of new travel watercolor sets. The lighting is oblique and brings out the texture of the paper surface, but doesn’t illuminate […]
Here is some new work from a photo I took when I lived in NYC. I’m just getting used to working with a watercolor travel set. I haven’t yet mastered the skill of mixing colors on that small scale with those little cubes of paint.
I’m finally beginning to generate some new work. I took a lead from my post in which I experiment with different styles of sketching a Coney Island Mural from an old photo of mine. Instead of taking months and months, I prepared the basic pen and ink sketches of my street construction site in just […]
I took a series of photos on the Coney Island boardwalk in 1991 (Atlantis, Coney Island, NYC, Mural for Young and Old, and Lonely in Winter). It seems that I forgot to post the photo on which these watercolors are based on. I started these sketches well over a year ago on a 14×20″ watercolor […]
This pen and ink print of the South Gate House at NYC’s Central Park Reservoir will soon be available on OtherArtbyJack
This Fallout Shelter Sign above art deco door watercolor print will soon be available on OtherArtbyJack
