Community Sketchbook--post your sketches

[Chris V++]

Hi The first two are from photos I took driving thur Utah and they are watercolor on yupo. The view is of salt lake city (more residential side). We ended up hiking all the way to the top of that mountain. I included a detail. The last two were made up scenes. The tree is on primed paper (made for acrylics) and the wave is on 140 lb watercolor paper. View attachment 264982
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[tall73]

A pumpkin painting for October! I might leave it like this or refine it a little. View attachment 264978

Good job, the stems especially look great.

 

[tall73]

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I really like the road painting. Have you been doing these on location?
EDIT: looks like I caught you while you were still typing some details! Some apparently were done o location.

By the way, one of my daughters tried out the canvas pad at Hobby Lobby with acrylic in this case and really enjoyed it. Thanks for the review.

It works well for what she does, which is make cards. She can cut each sheet into several small paintings and then paste them on. It winds up being more affordable than the Strathmore cards (which we also like), and takes heavier washes.

 

[Chris V++]

I really like the road painting. Have you been doing these on location?

By the way, one of my daughters tried out the canvas pad at Hobby Lobby with acrylic in this case and really enjoyed it. Thanks for the review.

It works well for what she does, which is make cards. She can cut each sheet into several small cards and then paste them on. It winds up being more affordable than the Strathmore cards (which we also like), and takes heavier washes.

I'm glad she liked the canvas. Isn't it a shock how thin it is. I bet you could put it in a home printer and make canvas prints. I just did these paintings past few days, obsessed with trying to get a grip on yupo. They were from photos i took last November on a trip to Nevada, Arizona and Utah. I'm having touble posting photos tonight. I"m getting error messages. I'm glad they showed up. Thanks again.

 

[tall73]

I'm glad she liked the canvas. Isn't it a shock how thin it is. I bet you could put it in a home printer and make canvas prints.

Yes, she said it was like painting on fabric. That is an interesting concept on the printing.

 

[tall73]

 

[tall73]

Re-worked this one.

 

[tall73]

 

[HadassahJoy]

 

[tall73]

Been a while since I did any art.

Digital, colors3d on a Nintendo 2ds

When my daughter visited the zoo this bird was camera shy.

 

[tall73]

Profile practice

 

[Chris V++]

Profile practice

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Great profile! Its so hard to get solid looking features in profiles but you managed very well!

 

[tall73]

Practicing a looser style.

 

[tall73]

 

[The Barbarian]

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I really like this. Lots of character in that one.

 

[tall73]

Distress Call

 

[tall73]

 

[The Barbarian]

I like the blue shading, showing distance.

 

[tall73]

I like the blue shading, showing distance.

Yeah, it was hard to get the middle portion right. You have less saturation, but in this case darker shades. Hard to pull off. But the blue works pretty well to show haze and such.

 

[tall73]

Saw this scene on a drive the other day. Mostly bare limbs out there these days.