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| 8/16/12 Kuretake Brush Writer, Stillman & Birn sketchbook |
When I’m faced with a vast, scenic landscape – the kind that
makes film makers drool – as a sketcher, I usually find myself paralyzed.
Distilling the detail to a level that I can manage and visually “cropping” a small
part of the scene are both daunting tasks. At Gasworks Park, as I gazed at Lake
Union’s picture-perfect sailboats, the Space Needle on the horizon (another
time when I was sketching at this park, a tourist asked me to point out the
houseboat used in Sleepless in Seattle,
and I had to shrug; she was disappointed), paralysis was about to set in.
Instead of my favorite Copic Multiliner SP pen, I pulled out
a few brush markers. If I attacked the vastness with a brush tip too wide to
handle detail or scope, I could evade those challenges and simply try to
capture the essence. It was liberating to let go of accuracy and
appropriate scale. I ended up enjoying this technique so much that I tried it again later at the mall.
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| 8/16/12 Kuretake Brush Writer, Tombow marker, Stillman & Birn sketchbook |
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