Category: Sketch (page 3 of 4)

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A sketch is a visual memo to remember an experience. It doesn’t have to be detailed or even accurate. Lately I’ve been exploring various media (pencils, crayons, markers, gel sticks, and brush pens) looking for a small set of materials that is easy to carry, drys fast, doesn’t smudge, and works as a kind of shorthand to capture shapes, values, textures, and color.

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This week I got a new set of Tombow Dual Brush pens. They have a fine point at one end and a nylon brush tip at the other. The ink is watersoluble and looks like watercolor if you spread it with a wet brush. The first sketch I did tested all the colors on watercolor paper.

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I’m always looking for faster ways to sketch with fewer tools to carry. This week I experimented with a variety of methods and materials and compared results.

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This week I’ve been exploring additional ways to sketch and paint directly without doing any underdrawing first. It’s harder to do, but it is quicker and it produces a livelier sketch. It’s tricky to get a good result because you have to develop the composition and layout as you go instead of planning it out ahead of time and it is quicker because you are leaving out a step. As with anything, the more you practice the better you get.

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Today’s second Paint the Town event was held at Gaiety Hollow which is a private house and garden on Mission Street across from Bush Pasture Park in Salem, Oregon. I did two watercolor sketches. I did this first one on a smaller piece of paper to warm up. I painted it directly with no underdrawing.

Strathmore 400 Series Watercolor paper 5.5×8.5 inches (14×21.6 cm), 1 inch flat brush, and Daniel Smith watercolors.

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