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| 5/2/22 Fremont Coffee Company |
Although I know it’s a common practice among many urban
sketchers to make line drawings on location and paint them later at their
leisure, I almost never continue to work on a sketch once I leave the site. If
I leave, I lose the momentum, energy and, frankly, the motivation of the
moment. If I’m interrupted and can’t finish on location, I simply decide the sketch
done.
Last Monday was a rare exception. Sketchwaiting at Fremont Coffee Company, I had taken only a sip or two of coffee and had just begun a sketch of people silhouetted before a large window (below). Then the call came, ending my wait, and it was time to go. I regretted not finishing the sketch, delighted by the lovely halos of backlighting around each patron.
Initially, I was going to leave the sketch unfinished, but later at home, I realized it wouldn’t take much more to finish.
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I prefer the finished version, hands down! Kudos for finishing it !
ReplyDeleteThank you, Brenoit!
DeleteThe added tones make it so much more dramatic.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joan! The unfinished one is really no more than a line drawing, so it definitely needed something.
DeleteYour finished version has very impactful values! Usually I find my own offsite additions to sketches have the wrong "feel"--too tight, vs the loose feeling of trying to capture a moment--but you clearly made a great choice continuing your work here.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lee! Most of the work was already done onsite, so that helped a lot to retain the freshness.
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