October 26, 2011

    The last, and I suppose the least... this is the final rotation and the one I felt least inspired by, so I settled on a fishing boat. The fisherman has tangled his line around the handle of his rod, but he's about to get the catch of his life anyway. 
    That's it! The last of the four scribble drawings - one for each orientation. I'm not caught up, but it helped move me along... 

July 7, 2011

       Here's a black pen drawing of a ten foot dingy beached and waiting for the wind to pick up and someone to take her out for a sail.

June 28, 2011

    This is the starboard stern quarter of a sail boat named the Isola Bella. The thing to the left is a winch and is incorrect because it alternately had rope on it or had the rope thrown aside, so that I never really managed to get it down correctly and gave up... It's got a winchish feel, at any rate...

March 18, 2011

    Today I visited the National Gallery with my friend, who is a copyist, and saw their lockers, how she sets up, and wandered the gallery while she painted. The gallery seemed to have a moderate sized crowd, but she would have up to eight people watching her paint at a given time. I'm very impressed by her bravery! 
    I was determined to get at least one sketch done, so I did this one of The Stranded Ship by Asher Durand. I chose it partly because it looked less complicated and thus doable, which is a good thing because I had to sketch it in two sits, due to picking  up a shoulder-peeker rather quickly the first time. The odd bat to the lower right is the worst as it should lay down, which it certainly does not... and I think it was actually the broken mast. Whatever.