Sketchpack Project days 11-15

 MFA Boston

 MassArt

 Simmons College

 Boston Architectural College

Newbury Street

Second set of 5 days Sketchpack Project

It’s not sketchpad its sketchpack sorry Here are more views of Boston and a couple of sketch maps one of them of Manhattan’s Central Park

First Five Days of Sketchpad project

I was invited to take part on a project for fun that is about doing one sketch a day. This is an idea from my friends in Cape Town South Africa. I thought it was interesting and exciting. this little accordion booklet will go there once I reach the end of the month!
here are the first 5 days and these are urban sketches of Boston. I noted geo location time of the day and date
The sketches are done in ink with a Lamy and digitally colored with my own personal set of self made Photoshop brushes

Harvard Square II

Watercolor on bristol 8 1/2 x 11″

Chinatown Boston

Fenway park

Here is the Fenway park, yawkey street, Boston, MA
Bristol smooth and Koi Sakura watercolors

Downtown Boston

I am not really happy with this sketch. Sometimes I have better portrait days and sometimes I do better city sketches, I don’t know what it depends on

Urban Sketcher Challenge. -Draw your Kitchen

I tried Dr. Martin’s watercolors on Canson watercolor panels. The last two are on Bristol plate panel. I like this panels a lot. it’s easier to scan without warping the paper, and also it is easier to avoid “poodles” of paint

very vibrant ! I love the saturation

Sketching the City

Back to urbanscapes after doing faces for a while.. This is Cotman's watercolors on Bristol Plate. The first one I wanted it to be very vibrant as it is life in in the streets of the North End Boston, a commercial street.

For this watercolor I wanted a more dull palette, as it was raining and kind of a gray cloudy day. This is Washington. My friend sent me a view from his office and I loved it so much I decided to draw it

A friend in New Mexico has a cabin in the mountains and its snowing! He sent me this wonderful view, the sun coming through the trees was something I really wanted to capture and emphasize. The coolness of the snow in contrast with the warm light was really beautiful in the photo. Here the palette is more of a balance of temperatures

Boston

Downtown Boston



Brookline, MA

Matamoros, Mexico

Watercolor Practices

Testing some paper, and new brushes, finally I got my squirrel brushes :)

Downtown Boston

Harvard Square Boston

 

North End. Boston

Harvard Square 3/2012

Ink drawings and watercolor on Bristol smooth

Harvard Square - Au Bon Pain

Sketchcrawl 34