Sketch Book Series: Waiting for Joy (May 2008)
When I was first beginning to sketch, I took my pad everywhere. Even in the car. I sketched while I was waiting for my wife to return from an errand.
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Sketch Book Series: Back Yard (August 2008)
Sketch Book Series: Dining Room (August 2008)
Sketch Book Series: View of Kitchen (April 2009)
Sketch Book Series: TV Room and Kitchen Pass Through (April 2009)
The clear, bold lines are due to a thick Micron pen used to trace over an underlying pencil sketch. The result is more of a snapshot than an interpretation of space. It is like a journal entry, used to remember a particular point in time.
Sketch Book Series: Exercise Room (April 2009)
Sketch Book Series: Meditation on the Back Porch (May 2008)
Sketch Book Series: M and D’s View of Florida Room (April 2009)
Even though the background should be seen as further away, I enjoyed my efforts to assemble the elements of this watercolor sketch to reconstruct the view of the ‘Florida Room’ (as the called it) at my Mom and Dad’s house.
Sketch Book Series: Back Yard (September 2011)
When I lived in San Jose, I would often practice sketching on the back porch. Many of my sketches were of the same subject. I used different techniques to figure out which gave me the result that I wanted.
