Tag Archives: sketches
Meditation Series: People Doing Things, NY, LA 1990-2024 Sketches 1-8
These 8 sketches are portraits of poses and gestures of people doing one activity or another.
Meditation Series: Overlapping Greenery, LA 2024 Pen and Ink Sketches 1-8
These sketches no longer exist in real life. I scanned them in before I applied the greenery, with watercolor. Technically, this was a feat, since I have don’t have an advanced image editor. It is interesting to compare this with the color version (which does exist IRL).
Meditation Series: Notable Trees, 1989 to Date Sketches 1-8
These sketches are about trees I have noticed over the years, some for their beauty, some for the memories they trigger. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: https://autisminspiredart.etsy.com My other artwork for sale is at: https://otherartbyjack.etsy.com
Meditation Series: Street Signs, NYC (1989-1991) Sketches 1-8
This is the series of street signs that I selected from the photos I took in the 1980s and 90s. Please visit my Etsy shop for my artwork for sale inspired by my autistic brother Mike at: https://autisminspiredart.etsy.com My other artwork for sale is at: https://otherartbyjack.etsy.com
Face Studies
Lesson 8 – Enhanced Landscape
Today’s warmup exercise: The book from which I am learning, the Tate Watercolour Manual, Lessons from the Great Masters by Tony Smibert and Joyce Townsend suggests an exercise combining techniques from previous lessons. Below is my practice chart, wherein I painted 4 miniature landscapes. The first step is painting a variegated wash using yellow ochre and a blue […]
