Tag: urban sketch

  • urban sketch, five

    urban sketch, five

    I have a mere three sketches left in this October (sub)urban sketching challenge I set for myself. Good thing, too. The weather is starting to become a factor to my outdoor sketching efforts. The one rule that I set for my October month of daily drawing was that they were not just doodles of the

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  • urban sketch, four

    urban sketch, four

    I’m nearly three-quarters of the way through my October sketching challenge as I write this and I have yet to miss a day. Two things have emerged from that effort: First, I think my drawing has legitimately improved. Doing anything daily is inevitably going to contribute to the effort of general practice and growth, but

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  • urban sketch, three

    urban sketch, three

    In the meanwhile, my personal month-of-sketches art experiment continues unabated and, as of nine days in, triumphant. To be clear, not even most of the pics are gems. I have been partaking in the act of suburban sketching, which doubly adds to my challenge of (a) seeking out something to sketch and a place to

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  • urban sketch, two

    urban sketch, two

    Crossposted on Notes for a Sketch It’s hardly worth logging a few messy sketches but I will say since declaring that I was going to start a daily art challenge and do a sketch every day… well, I have. The afternoon after my last post I made my way to the art store. There are

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  • urban sketch, one

    urban sketch, one

    Crossposted on Notes for a Sketch It has been a few years since I plunked myself into the blank pages of a sketchbook for my reprisal into the plein air arts. It was an adventure that took me down a rabbit hole of watercolours and personal expression through ink and pigment that has been hard

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