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| 10/22/18 Wedgwood street with ballpoint |
As is typical for this time of year, fog has been rolling in at
night and staying through the morning, shrouding the Puget Sound area with a
thick white blanket. It burns off by early afternoon, so I usually wait until
the sun breaks through to go out sketching. On Monday morning, though, the fog
was exceptionally dense and mysterious, and I couldn’t resist heading out to
the Wedgwood neighborhood, where I knew the fog would be thickest.
When sketching fog, my first impulse is to reach for graphite, but
since my Bic ballpoint is adhered to my left hand for InkTober, I thought I’d
give it a try. Although it’s been helpful to learn to use a Bic by thinking of it as a pencil, the one
thing I can’t do with a ballpoint is lay it at an angle and smudge the ink into a soft
haze. I may be getting friendlier with ballpoint,
but that doesn’t mean I don’t miss graphite.
After sketching the street at left with the Bic, I couldn’t resist one more – this time with graphite.
You can take the pencil away from the girl, but you can’t take the girl away
from the pencil.
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| 10/22/18 A different Wedgwood street, this time with graphite (and a little colored pencil) |
Certain materials work so much better for certain scenes. I do like the ghostly trees in the first sketch, but the fog in the second looks almost solid.
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