Take 2

This is a redo of the previous sketch - see it at http://daloweartist.blogspot.com/2008/09/september-23-2008-2nd-day-of-fall.html. I just couldn't like the dark murky green background. So I put white gouache mixed with a little yellow and red in places and of course mixing with the green layer underneath. I do think it brightens the sketch a bit and keeps it from being a complete flop. Which do you like best; the first or second version?

Meeting Sketches

I did all these sketches in a meeting today at work. I had the zinnias on my desk and I took them into the meeting so that "everyone could enjoy them" but of course I intended to DRAW them - multi-tasking at its finest! See, you have to be creatively sneaky and steal every minute that you can for your art! I watercolored them after I got home tonight. I sketched them in Pigma Micron 08 and 03 pens. I also managed to take the minutes at this THREE-HOUR meeting!

September 23, 2008 - 2nd day of fall

Today's sketches. The one above is done first with Pigma Micron 08 Pen, then Inktense pencils, then I got carried away with watercolor, gouache, and finally colored pencils.

Both are sketched from life inspired by the pitcher of zinnias on my desk at work - I continue my zinnia fascination...

A cloudscape

Watercolor and gouache with Pigma Micron Pen

Catching up on posting. These are all in watercolor and gouache in my 5 x 7 sketchbook.