Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Mt Hood from Pittock Mansion

This assignment was to do a landscape, using only circles, triangles and rectangles.  I did it on my tablet with autodesk sketchbook, which doesn't have an easy way of creating triangles.  Or a good way to manipulate individual shapes.  You sort of have to put each shape on a separate layer and deform that.  This would have been easier with a vector program, I think.


Day 48, back-dated

 


Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Art from memory

Another assignment.  This one was to look at some famous piece of art for 20 minutes and then put it away and recreate it from memory.

So here's my version of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Day 41, back-dated

 


Saturday, April 18, 2020

Sketching together, apart


Today was our scheduled sketchcrawl.  We can't get together for it while we're in lock-down, so we did a distributed one, in which everyone sketches in and around their own house, all at the same time.

I did my side yard again, with the dogwood tree leafing out, and Barbara's camellia blooming.

And then the cats, separately.



Day 37, back-dated

 


Thursday, April 2, 2020

Day 21, back-dated

 


More carpenters

Half the city is shut down, but workers are still coming round to work on my neighbor's house.  For which she's extremely grateful, hoping to be able to get back into it soon.

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Self-portrait

In a 2" x 2" frame, to force suggestions of features instead of details:
As an alternative, we could have done a sketch in chiaroscuro, but I managed to make one sketch do for both.

Day 20, back-dated