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| 7/21/17 water-soluble colored pencils |
Whenever I sketch at Maple Leaf Park, I find myself compelled to sketch the historic water tower that
dominates the park and landscape. Since I sketch at the park so often, I decided
I should find a different focal point once in a while. On this visit I ignored
the water tower completely and instead sketched the houses and trees on one
side of it.
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| The Honest Co. hand sanitizer spray bottle |
Technical note: For my spraying technique, I had been using a tiny travel-size perfume
atomizer. It works well enough (it made it onto my Top 10 last year), but I’ve been looking for one with a finer
mist. Shortly before we left for Chicago, Greg was shopping at Target for
travel-size products and picked up a bottle of hand sanitizer, thinking it
might work for my sketching needs. I cleaned it out, and sure enough, it puts
out a wider but finer mist than the perfume atomizer I had been using.
This was the first sketch I tried with the new spray
bottle. The trees got a little blurry because I was holding the nozzle at the
same distance that I used to hold the tiny atomizer, which is too close for the
new bottle’s wider but finer output of water. I get the best results when I
hold it about an arm’s length from the sketch.
I would never have though of checking to see if the atomizers of different bottle had a finer mist. Good thinking on Greg's part! I had a nice effect on the trees in your sketch. Nicely done!
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