'Kestor 10/1/12 '
graphite, gouache and ink on Ingres paper
I mentioned new year resolutions in my previous post, when I showed you the ernormous reading list. Now I'm going to introduce the other major resolution I've made!
I need to brush up my landscape sketching skills, so I have decide to do a local landscape drawing or painting each week this year. They are not intended to be major works of art, simply an exercise for me, where I can be freer and more experimental with materials if I want.
Todays effort was this, a granite outcrop with a lot of strata lines.
For now, I will have to work from photos, as the weather is not conducive to 'plein air' painting, though I hope I might be able to get out and about with my sketchbook a bit more often this year.
7 comments:
wonderful as can be~
Good for you Danielle! I haven't put it down as a specific NY resolution, but MORE SKETCHING is definitely needed for me. I just don't seem to get around to it enough, and I've got into that silly state of mind now where I think everything needs to be a 'finished' piece of art, and have forgotten how to play and learn.
I am brushing up my drawing skills but whether I shall ever paint is debatable as we never used anything more demanding than poster paints at school!!!
I love this painting of Kestor. It has the Dartmoor magic in it.
Lovely, very "English" looking piece :)
I hope we will get to benefit from your new years resolutions and get a peek now and then at your sketching. It is always a delight to see anything you put to paper!
Geez - you are good. the picture and your resolution! I made a similar one... EVERY DAY I have to write, or draw. preferably both, but I just don't seem to have time for both. So far, 12 days running, I've kept it : )
- The Equestrian Vagabond
just gorgeous paintings. I love the details without it being overworked. Lovely
Janice
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