Weeders Plein Aire 2012

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Cheers,

[artastic]

WOW EP you are on a roll! and each one is more intricate than the last, I like your mobile studio, and good idea for me too with all this snow.

you are an inspiration, I must get out!

[eyepaint]

Thanks, Bonnie. I look forward to "which view should I sketch today?" So far I'm trying for the views that will be too bright and too hot when the weather warms up just in the event that I'm still doing this when the weather warms up. I'd sure like to continue. There is so much practice I need to do.

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The perspective here is incorrect. The left roofline should slant the opposite way. Funny how it takes uploading it here to see that.


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This is a funny 80's style breezeway between buildings.


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The perspective of the structure around this pond is incorrect. I guess this was not my week.


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For this one: pencil then wc then some ink; also I put a drop of water from my waterbrush into each colour well before I began painting so the colours are so much richer. Happy Happy Happy!


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This one I rushed and it shows.


Cheers,

[eyepaint]

Hmmm I'm the only one posting here. I hope others join in soon!

Here's the next batch:

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... more to come ...

[rozzi]

I would join in here but I only paint indoors - apart from these 2 little ones I did last week.

Ros

[eyepaint]

Yay Ros!! Love that blue water. And the figure on the rocks ... and one can distinguish the figure from the rocks - bonus!!

[artastic]

welcome Ros, great rocks and shadows
EP you are a sketchign maniac, I haven't done anythign outside for ages, I have to start walking around again! I may actually have somethign this week

[sundiver]

Eeps, thanks for keeping these threads alive! Your cityscapes are inspirational.
Great little winterscapes, Bonnie, and Ros, with this quality I don't think you can say you "don't do plein air", because these are fabulous. Do more!
I've been keeping an eye on these threads but have gotten way behind in posting them, so here are a few going back to November.
First ones are Switzerland. At Zermatt I only had a 4x4 brown-paper sketchbook and a couple of pencils, but I had to try the Matterhorn view from our window, just so i can say I did it.

The early morning sun was hitting it and there was a small cloud.
Julie gave me this teeny 1x1-inch "sketch pad" that came with some cheese and I couldn't resist a couple of mountain views with a ballpoint pen. There's a Smurf on each page too.

We spent a couple of days in the Italian part of Sz and had time to work on some PAs in Locarno, by the lake. This is oil pastels on Wallis Belgian Mist, 5x7.

A couple of months of studio work back home, then...Cuba, on the beach. Here's my travel OP kit, with my 5x7 fake moleskine and 5x7 support board made of 2 pieces of cheap foamcore duck-taped together. I keep small pieces of tape around the edges to tape the paper onto the board.

and the result, 5x7 on UART. I left out the sunbathers.

some flowers by the pool, ATC size

Lastly, back home, when we had a couple of days of record-breaking warm weather, I could sit by the river in a t-shirt with the same kit. That's ice on the far side of the river. 5x7

Caught up! Sorry to be so long-winded!

[eyepaint]

Gorgeous work, Wendy!! How did you even hold a 1x1" book to sketch in it? It would be lost beneath my hand Maybe you could do zentangles and incorporate the smurf

Bonnie - thanks and get walking!!!

[artastic]

wendy fabulous sketches, I like your travel kit but arent those softies, not OPs? I can make one of these for SP from a cigar box I have, SPs are better for landscapes for me anyway
I have a 2x2" sketchbook my friend brought me from mexico, I think I have to add it to my travel kit,

EP- getting closer (2 wks) will add a couple later today I have saved for the scavenger hunt

[artastic]

getting caught up with some PAs these are all 5x7
this is one I missed
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the skating rink at the lake from this winter: WC



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along Hill Ave while I was waiting for the service guy to finish changing oil in my truck : WC and water soluble ink (kind of messy)



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looking across the lake at Douglas Park Hill with a scupture by Joe Fafard in the forground : WC and ink



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Church Spires- sketch with watersol ink



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Anglican church in Cathedral Village: WC

[sundiver]

Originally Posted by artastic

wendy fabulous sketches, I like your travel kit but arent those softies, not OPs?

Nope, they're opies.

Another great pile of watercolours, Bonnie! I like that street scene. Good to have a sketchbook for when you're waiting for whatever. I have a whole collection of parking-lot plein airs ;at the orthodontist, bus depot, etc etc.
I used to have a film about Joe Fafard in my classroom from when he was making all those cows.

[eyepaint]

Great scenes out and about (oot and aboot?) in Regina, Bonnie. I love to see the street fronts and the structures in the parks.

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