Elf 12/15/20 Hearth 12/20/20 pencil 4x6

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Not a very productive art practice week but I'll keep plugging away.

Church 7x10 derwent watercolor pencils and white india ink 12/11/2020

 

My sister asked me to paint a picture of her church with the wooden 2x4 crosses for her Christmas present. So around 3 on Tuesday, which was a very cold overcast day, I went to her Woodridge Community Church on Sunnyslope and Howard to sketch and take pictures. Only had an hour to work because sunset comes at 4. Plus it was really cold, cloudy, and windy.

I went back on Wednesday at 3 and did a 7x10 pencil sketch. I needed a wider piece of paper if she did not want the crosses to overlap the church. Beautiful winter day! 40F and sunny with only a slight breeze. I texted her the below sketch. She loved the sketch but wanted the front of the church instead of the side.

So I did some quick 4x6 pencil sketches to test the arrangement of crosses and texted it to her.

She sent me this back.

While in the waiting room I sketched two 3x5 pen value thumbnails to see if crosses looked better dark or light.

Then I went on Thursday around 3 to start a 7x10 color sketch. Pictures were taken onsite with the available winter light so they have a blue cast.

While I was out there the clouds for a short time looked like they were pointing to the church. The sun was coming from the left and behind me so I thought of making the crosses shadows point to the church. The evergreen bushes were casting a blue shadow on the off white church which was given a yellow cast from the setting sun. Then I decided it would be cool to reflect the crosses into the glass window of the church. Also got rid of the parking lot and put grass there.

Then Friday, it was 40F and raining so I finished the picture at home.

I'm using my autumn palette but I didn't use all the colors.

• Bark 2000 is a nice purplish color for far trees.
• Willow 1900 was a perfect color for the roof and near brush.
• Mainly used 0900 Iris blue with a little 1100 deep indigo
• Ionian green 1320 for green roof modified with blue and yellow
• Might have used 1560 fern for evergreens and other green places.
• Grass was leaf green 1600 and my work horse yellow, 1700 mustard.
• 1700 mustard was also used for crosses, church, trees, green roof.

Didn't use 1800 baked earth, 0500 chili red, 1910 red oxide, 0260 burnt orange.

waiting room lamp 3x5 pen

 

candle 3x5 pen

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waiting room 3x5 pen 12/09/2020

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Cardinal (penci) and Evergreen (pen) 12/9 - 12/10/2020

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waiting room 3x5 pen 12/8/2020

 Spent a lot of time in waiting rooms this week.

pie 4x6 pencil 12/6/20

 Been just quick sketching these from memory.

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Greenfield Park 9x12 silky black pencil 12/6/20

 in studio. Finally finished it.

some onsite drawings from 11/20/20

Took these pictures outside. Still dry enough. However very cloudy so starting to get the blue light of winter.

wreath 4x6 bic pencil 12/5/20

 

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Snowman 4x6 bic pencil, ball point pen 12/4/120

 

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Greendale greenspace 12/4/20, 9x12 gioconda silky black pencil

 

Went sketching with my buddies. It was sunny and 40F. Lot warmer than it sounds. Gary introduced to us to the gioconda silky black pencil. It's slippery like my graphite sticks and the darker marks don't erase completely. However you can get an amazing range of values with just one pencil and it hardly smears at all when you drag your hand across the drawing. Unfortunately they are very hard to find. 

Old Muskego Settlement 11/22/20 7x10 derwent Inktense

 A brisk wind made it a bit chilly

Calhoun Park 11/9/20 Derwent Inktense 7x10