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| 10/29/19 Crown Hill neighborhood |
On most
bright days, I tend to seek out scenes to sketch with the sun at my back or
side because I don’t want to look into the sun. But I admire the beautiful sketches
of Virginia Hein, who often chooses backlit scenes of trees fringed with
light. Another sketcher I admire is Pedro Barahona Rodriguez, and his recent backlit sketch showed a lovely outline of light around pedestrians.
Driving
west to an afternoon errand, I spotted these trees in the Crown Hill
neighborhood with the sun in front of me. I pulled over immediately and, with
the help of the visor and my dark glasses, tried to capture the light on the
tops of the trees and almost everything else in silhouette.
Why
has it taken me eight years of sketching to finally see how much I am missing
if I only look for the sunny side?
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