SIP-n-Sketch: COVID Night Life, One Way In-progress Session 3, 4

Hi SIP-n-Sketchers:

Last session, we worked on more pencil line work for windows, bike rack, and street bricks, added washes to define the street lamps, and defined the skyline better. 

I hope you are enjoying COVID Night Life - One Way.

CoWaBunGA 

SIP-n-Sketch: COVID Night Life, One Way - Session 1, 2

SIP-n-Sketchers:

First and second sessions of COVID Night Life, One Way. We discussed using thumbnails to work out composition, transferred the preferred composition to paper, and started blocking out the colors of the sketch. 

I'm taking a slightly different approach to this sketch by going back to pencil line, usually my last step in previous sketches. I am testing this out for a predominantly watercolor style final sketch. 

Enjoy your sketching, see you next time.

CoWaBunGA

 

SIP-n-Sketch: New Project Alert

Hi Sketchers:

By popular demand, a new night scene sketch starts tonight. The project is "COVID Night Life, One Way" and the image is here:

Feel free to use any medium you prefer, although I will sketch with acrylics and pencil. There are lots of fun elements in this image. 

See y'all tonight.

CoWaBunGA

SIP-n-Sketch: COVID Night Life, OAK - June 2021

Hi Sketchers:

We completed the COVID Night Life, OAK, this last session. I added a few more washes to the sky, filled in the details of the sweeper truck, and completed the night lights along the horizon. I applied washes over the clouds so they can fade into the background. 

Because I couldn't show my work within our 30 minute sessions, I've prepared this video for your reference. 

Look for the next project, more COVID Night Life, coming soon.

CoWaBunGA

SIP-n-Sketch: COVID Night Life, Airfield, In-progress Session 3

For Session 3, we added washes to the night sky to define clouds, added shadows to the clouds to present up-lighting, added washes to the asphalt to delineate old patches, and blocked out the sweeper truck geometry.

One element I forgot was the airfield safety lighting, the red lighting next to the porta-potty. I'll have to catch that this week or in the next session.

CoWaBUNga

SIP-n-Sketch: COVID Night Life, Airfield In-progress Session 1.2

Hi Sketchers:

So, we started a new sketch in the COVID Night Life series with a scene of the Oakland Airport airfield at night. My first attempt was off because the scale of the main subject took up too much of the composition. In the last session, I scaled back the porta-potty and sweeper truck to allow more of the sky to be in the sketch.

This allows more of the sky to appear in the sketch, which I find attractive. 

See you next time,

CoWaBUnGA 

Fog City Java, 5/2021

My Friends at Fog City Java invited me back for a small show at their cafe in Pacifica. I've been exhibiting at Fog City Java for many years now and it's always fun to see people enjoy my artwork after a morning dawn patrol or getting coffee on their drive down Highway 1. If you happen to be in Pacifica and want good coffee or pastry, stop by Fog City Java on Crespi Drive and check out my latest paintings.

Seating is not available yet, but soon...

HMB Hay Bales, SF Belle under Red Sun