Pencil Sketch T28a 12/23/14

I'm a little bit behind on posting. Been doing a sketch almost everyday.

Went through my picture pile, threw away about half and gave about half to one of my sisters to do with as she pleases. Got to make room for new creations. I read about an artist who burns his old pictures. Sounds like a fun thing to do but I think if I think the neighbors would call the fire department if I did that.

Pencil Sketches a-e & 1928 Buick Touring Car in 5.5 x 8.5" sketch book

Sometimes you just got to make time to draw. These were done with a cheap mechanical pencil. The hand is live, the Buick is from a picture on a calendar.

18 x 12 oil pastel

Struggled a bit with this. Model was excellent and sat very still. I think I like painting side views the best. I like the feel of oil pastels but they are less forgiving than acrylics and regular pastels.

18 x24 pastels

This guy was so wiggly that I just did a quick sketch then switched to the undraped side which has very short poses.

18x12 acrylic

Still working with white, green and orange. His shirt didn't have button down collar this week. The people who were there last week noticed that.

Brookfield Square water color Sketch

about 11/7/14
We did some sketching at Brookfield square.
I'm just catching up on posting pics, so will post over a period of a few days.

9x11 watercolor sketch in multi-media book. I really enjoyed painting the stone columns.

Juanita, 18x12 acrylics from sketch club on 10/21 & 10/28

 I think the skin color on the face is probably more true on the first one.

The 2nd one is a side portrait and I limited my colors to 4 tubes of paint, white, orange, green, and red.

Minooka Park 8x8 acrylic 10/24/14

Overcast and about 55F. Now at the end of the Fall color season.

Some plein air pieces being submitted to Art Bar Mini Show

Here's a link to artbar exhibits
https://www.facebook.com/artbarmke/app_208195102528120?ref=page_internal

Mini Show Tiny Art at Tiny Prices
November 7 - December 28, 2014

Here's my pictures I'd like to submit

6x8 acrylic Fox River Bridge

We planned to go the Steaming cup in downtown Waukesha. However, it was pretty nice out today so I went west on Main Street and parked just before Veterans Park. I really liked the bridge. People were very friendly and nice here.

Used both yellows and both blues to make greens but still can't find the right green. No Alizarin today as trees were more yellow, brown, and green here.

Minooka park 8x8 acrylic 10/9/14

Used both yellows and alizarin crimson to get the tree colors.
along with ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and white.
I wonder if I would get a better green with cerulean blue. I'll have to try that next time.

Weather was perfect. Sunny, started out at about 50 F with a stiff breeze strong enough to blow my palette into the water. Gary couldn't keep his umbrella open and Carol bungied her umbrella so it wouldn't blow over. I wore vest and raincoat with fingerless gloves and was comfortable. Of course no bugs. This weather makes me want to be outside.

Msc model 9/30/14

Used green, orange, burnt sienna and white.
Loved his hair. It was fun to paint.

I am caught up on posting. Just in time. Have to leave now.

8x6 acrylic, Marinette Field 9/26/14

Fall colors are really good. Weather was very warm.

12x13 acrylic, Roman Farmer, Msc Model 9/16/14

Roman Centurian, 12x18 acrylic, MSC model 9/16/14

One of our members is a re-enactment enthusiast and modeled for us. I liked the plume on top of the helmet.

8x6 acrylic, Greenfield Park 9/5/14

Carol, Kim, John, and I showed up. Very pleasant day.

Some water color sketches, marinette county, labor day weekend

9x12

Used my sparkly watercolors. the brown is just the right shade for the sandy soil.

Just used my multimedia sketchbooks.
Sometimes it's just easier when traveling.

24x18 acrylic piece exhibited at ArtBar show 9/12/14

Here's a piece I put in my friends The Martini Girls show. You had to use a paper bag. I went to the opening. The art was very interesting and excellent. I had a fun time making my piece.

2 acrylic Sketches at Wauwatosa center down the hill from Firefly on 8/14/14

Just catching up on posting. Still managed to paint but too busy to post. Just digging out now.
Only Roger and I showed up. He went up and sat on the bridge over the river. A lot of people were there but all were very polite.

Harley Davidson Museum 8/12/14, 6x8 acrylic

Been using the same paint by spraying with golden open thinner and putting in the fridge.
Haven't had to use a damp paper towel all summer to keep paints moist. In the past I was working with the fast dry because the summers were hot and dry. This summer I am learning to work with paint that stays wet and doesn't dry on the canvas.

Trimborn Farm 8/5/14

6x8 acrylic sketch

Marinette County 8/1/14

6x8 acrylic

8x8 acrylic Davies Falls

9x12 pencil

Had a good time. Bugs not too bad. Wore pants and long sleeve shirt sprayed with Deet. More mosquitoes at river but light breeze kept them mostly off. Walked up both sides of river, then chose left side to get a better view of the falls. Golden Open Thinner is a doing a good job keeping the paints from drying too fast. Actually can scrape off areas and repaint if I need to, instead of painting over the top. Of course this cooler, wet summer is slowing down the drytime too. My paintings took more than one day to dry. I just used a regular plastic mechanical pencil for the sketch.

6x8 acrylic, Waukesha Riverwalk 7/25/14

Ok, now I'm caught up on posting my plein air paintings up to this one.

I used the exact same colors, titanium white, cad yellow medium, burnt sienna and cerulean blue that were left over from last week's painting in this painting. However as I'm looking at these last two paintings this one feels warmer, maybe because the yellow and burnt sienna is more prominent while the army lake one has more white.

I like painting water. Cerulean blue mixed with burnt sienna made a real nice dark gray. With the approaching storm the water became more gray as the morning progressed. I like the dark green I made with these colors but I think I need to use a different yellow in partnership with the current yellow to better capture the wide variety of greens found this wet and cool summer.

It's still pretty cool (70s) and very humid (upcoming rain) so despite the steady medium light breeze I was still fighting the slow dry of the golden open acrylics. I haven't added any retarder to slow the dry or keep the paints wet longer. I like using golden open because you never know what the conditions will be like outside. Some of the thicker painted parts of the paintings were still tacky on Sunday.

It's interesting that water from the fountain is translucent. The fountain interrupted the current and it's falling water created a ring around it.

8x8 acrylic, Army Lake, East Troy 7/18/14

burnt sienna, titanium white, cadmium yellow medium, cerulean blue.

7/11/14 9x11 Water Color sketch, Prospect Hills Settlement, New Berlin Historical Park

Still was pressed for time so picked a simple subject and worked in watercolors. Easy clean up and everything fits in a small backpack.

11x9 Water color sketch of Downtown Greendale Gazebo, Tuesday evening 7/8/14

I'm a little bit behind on posting so am just starting to catch up now.

Only had an hour so this is what I got done.

8x8 acrylic sketch at Greenfield Park 7/1/14

Used same colors left over on palette from East Troy sketch.

6x8 acrylic sketch at East Troy Town Center 6/27/14

Burnt Sienna underpainting
Hansa Yellow Opaque
Alizarin Crimson Hue
Ultramarine Blue
Titanium white

8x6 Acrylic Sketch at VA, 6/24/14

Very humid. Acrylics were watery and not drying despite light breeze. Probably approaching 65-70F?

Burnt sienna, Ultramarine blue, Hansa yellow opaque, Titanium white.

9x11 watercolor sketch at Colectivo Coffee, Milwaukee Lakefront

Decided to bring prange watercolors as I thought I would be sitting at a table but ended up sitting in grass. Lakefront was very busy! Ramp to lakefront was closed. Better to come here during weekday mornings.

East Troy Electric RR car 9x12 pastel 6/13/14

Only had an hour to sketch so this is what I ended up with.

Hart Park watercolor sketches 6/10/14

9x11 prange watercolor and prange brush (which worked better than I expected.)
CPP International "Impressions" Sketch book

It was drizzling very lightly on and off. You can see where the rain drops hit my last sketch. That's why I did watercolor rather than pastel. It was fun.

Elegant Farmer Electric Railroad Station, Mukwonago, 6/6/14

I need more varieties of green.
9x12 pastel
mis teintes paper

9x12 pastel, Joan D'Arch Chapel, Marquette University

Plein Air Sketching with MSC, 6/3/14 evening. I like how I rendered the doors.

Last indoor sketching session at MSC 5/7/14

I sat over on the undraped side. Here are two heads sketched in 20 minutes. The second head I had a little trouble with the angle and tilt.

Alisa Pastel portrait 18x24 charcoal paper from MSC sketching session 4/29/14

This is the 3rd time I've sketch this model and every year I am improving.

Here's from 2012, http://katsmishmash.blogspot.com/2012/02/pastel-18x24-on-charcoal-paper.html

Here's from 2011, http://katsmishmash.blogspot.com/2011/10/from-milwaukee-sketch-club-portrait.html