I got a lot of ideas one cold late fall afternoon down by the lake at the end of Addison around the golf course. Since our painting area has been disrupted by Christmas stuff, I’ve been working in my sketchbook with my minimal urban sketching tools which includes brush pens so I don’t have to worry about water.
Here is a more than quick sketch of the clubhouse for the golf course. The perspective is a little off and the clock should be higher on the tower, but the overall look is what I was looking for. 5 X 5 on hot press
After golf I often stop in at the Clock Tower Cafe. 5 X 5 on hot press.
If you look to the west from the parking lot you will see Lake Shore Drive across the athletic fields. 5 X 10 on hot press.
These are a lot of fun requiring only a small space to work and a good light source.
Wow! You've been busy! I love seeing people's plein air kits and yours is so neat. I really like the lakefront sketches. Especially at that size, you've got a perfect balance between line and wash. And the skies are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI agree— the skies are lovely! And the sketches are wonderful, just enough pen work and everything is so nicely painted. The colors are rich and varied, a lot more depth and detail than most urban sketching I’ve seen.
ReplyDeleteI think the ink lines are too strong in the first two, the trees however have a nice presence.
ReplyDeleteWell they are pen and ink sketches.
DeleteThese are great sketches, Alan. The lakefront scene is my fav with that delicious looking sky/cloud taking up half the page. And just the right amount of pen (white and black) running through the middle buildings and trees as needed. The calm grass mildly echoing the echoing the sky. I see you used that pole in the first sketch like the fire plug in your other one, planting it center front. Maybe it's okay there, it certainly the first thing you notice anyway. Maybe the sketching is a tad too heavy in that one. The sky again is lovely, but gets overpowered by the heavy line making. The 2nd one seems to handles it better and the lead in with the driveway is a great compositional element.
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