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| 11/5/20 Maple Leaf neighborhood (The Mitsubishi bicolor turns out to be more water-soluble than I thought!) |
Sunshine, clouds, rain – every condition offers different sketching
challenges. It’s not as much fun to sketch without light and deep shadows, but
I’m not picky on my daily walks.
Technical note: A few weeks ago when I was sketching in the drizzle, I discovered that I didn’t have any colored pencils with me that weren’t water-soluble – bad news on a wet day. I went home and immediately looked through my harder colored pencils (which work better on the Field Notes Expedition’s Yupo pages) to pick out a few key hues for my daily-carry. A Mitsubishi vermilion/Prussian blue bicolor is a favorite from my red/blue bicolor experiments, so I thought it would be an expeditious choice. It’s not supposed to be water-soluble (though I admit I’d never tested it with water). On a wet day last week (at left), I found that it is – at least partly.
After I’ve done a few more sketches in the rain to get the kinks like that one out, I’ll show you my inclement weather sketch kit.
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| 10/14/20 Overcast but not colorless. |
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| 10/15/20 Sunny but hard to sketch when my subject leaves before I'm done. |
Rain can be inconvenient, but it brings out
the best in the colors of foliage. (All photos taken Nov. 5, 2020, in Maple Leaf.)
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| Look at all those trash cans... I regret that I didn't sketch this! |
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