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| 10/23/18 Maple Leaf neighborhood |
The fog was so thick Tuesday morning that I could barely see the
house across the street. I went upstairs to sketch this from our bedroom
window. The utility wires dripped as if with rain. Even through the pea soup, I
could see the warm glow of our neighbor’s tree. It’s one of my favorite things
about fall – seeing trees blazing through fog.
Technical note: I’ve lately been experimenting with putting a bit
of color in my mostly-graphite sketches (I tried it in the sketch I posted yesterday, too). If I try to apply colored
pencil over graphite, it doesn’t layer well, so I erase out a clear spot of
paper first. Then if I want to mute the hue further as I did in this foggy
scene, I can smudge graphite over it.
What do you think? Is the touch of color effective?
I think the touch of color adds a extra bit of life to the sketch. I like that you kept it very limited.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I'm glad you think so! I do, too, and I'm going to keep doing that as long as I have something colorful to put in! Our days of that are numbered... all the leaves are falling off.
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