I am continuing to work on sketches of Los Angeles for my Los Angeles Sketchbook, which will be published some day. This is a series I just completed of the skyscrapers of downtown. The top painting is very loose, with little regard for detail. I was trying to express shapes and forms through the use of color, value, and shadow.
The next three are very tight, and done with a series of background glazing washes with small bits of detail selectively located through the paintings, giving the illusion that there is more detail than there really is.
The bottom two images are of my studio(s): my inside one, and when the weather permits, my outside one, on the patio table in the back yard.
Here are some of my set ups from the last few months: my inside studio, my outside studio, teaching at the Creative Arts Group in Sierra Madre, and teaching a watercolor workshop at Swain's Art Store in Glendale.
Here is a series of quick studies I did the other day of a park I was visiting. They were drawn with a Sanford Uniball pen and painted later in the studio with watercolor. All work was done in my Aquabee Super Deluxe sketchbook.
Here are some interior practice sketches.
Here are a few quick sketches I did while waiting in the car for my friend. I used my Aquabee 6" x 9" sketchbook, a Uniball Micro pen and Holbein watercolors. I did the sketch on location, and painted them later in the studio.
Here are the same sketches from my post a few weeks ago but with color added.
Last year my brother and I took a train trip through the Royal Gorge. While we were waiting to depart, I took a photo of him taking a photo of the locomotive. I love this image. I painted it yesterday, substituting some thick trees for the concrete overpass that was originally there.
I just returned from a trip to San Antonio, Texas, to visit both the city, and a friend who was graduating from basic military training at the air force base there. These were all done on location with my Sanford Uniball Micro pen and my 6" x 9" Aquabee Super Deluxe sketchbook. I painted all of the sketches later, using photographic reference and some imagination. See how anything can be sketched, and how there are many opportunities to practice?
Here are some studies and some final versions of the Colorado Street Bridge. I experimented with gouache on the third sketch.
