Astro Boy

Uni-Ball Vision liner and watercolor on Leuchttrurm1917 Sketchbook 145 mm x 210 mm

I liked the hairdo of this woman, Astro Boy style like. Also the sunglasses were in her back. Those are things I notice when my radar is on sketching mode ;) Ha!

Tender Green

Fineliner and watercolor on Handbook Watercolor Sketchbook 8" x 8"

It's that time of the year where everything is coming alive. I parked in a parking lot to sketch the view of this old homes and trees across the street. I liked several things in this view. The road going down the hill which make a nice perspective, the old houses with earthy color roofs, the trees with new foliage, a tender green as I like to say and the cute blossoms of tulips which add  joyful spots of color to complete the sketch. Fun way to start late Spring, late is better than never.

Contour line, a boot and else.

I did and exercise today. I did a pencil contour line of a boot and that was it for line. I worked with watercolor paint from there. Because I didn't have more lines within the contour line to work with, I was forced to go through a different process. I had to think of the washes' values ahead and save lighter areas on the go. I put more effort into this thinking than my traditional way to sketch, which is more detail line, it may seems it was easy but it was the opposite. I used two colors mainly, Burnt Sienna and French Ultramarine. It started like this.

Then I added layers for more detail, ending up with white gouache to highlight areas. This boot looked so lonely with no context, so I added a background blending paint on paper using the same colors I used for the boot and made sure to paint the opposite color to make it more interesting. Voilà. Happy Sunday.

Pencil, watercolor and gouache on W&N CP 6" x 8"