It's been a beastly hot summer here in the mid-Atlantic states, but we had a couple of tolerable days this week where I was able to get out and sketch en plein air over lunch.
As always, you can click on these for bigger. They were all done in a 3"x5" Handbook sketchbook.
This first one was from memory of my daughter's backyard, as seen out her back door. I was watching her critters last weekend, and spent a fair amount of time looking at this. The light and shadow through the trees caught my eye. Done with a Pilot Razor pen and a waterbrush to wash the soluble ink.
Did this one over lunch from a picture of a Scottish castle that I googled up. This one, and the next two were done with the limited watercolor palette I've been playing with.
Tuesday and Wednesday were beautiful days, so I went walkabout over lunch. The first is the corner of a building on the George Washington University campus. Insane angles and perspective, so of course I ignored my pencil and dived right in with pen. The watercolor wash was done in about 3 minutes as it started to rain a little bit and lunch was nearly over.
And the other was this very interesting tree across the street. Again, the play of light and shadow caught my eye.
I'm ready for cooler weather to come back. I have a mental list of things I want to sketch in DC once I can be outside without my brains broiling.
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