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Virtual sketchcrawl - Embody the art you love

Today's challenge was to be inspired by and emulate some piece of artwork that you love.  I'd picked Hokusai's Great Wave.  

I used a limited palette and no blending to try to emulate a woodblock print, portraying a few leaves of the shrub beside my front porch.

Construction

I thought that I should document all the construction that going on within sight of my house.  Cause someday, God willing, it'll all be done and quiet on the street again.

The green dumpster is for my next door neighbor.  The structural work is all done now, and the electrical system and plumbing have been repaired.  They still have to re-assemble her kitchen, and repair the plaster and repaint in the rest of the house.

The brown dumpster is for the triplex across the street, which has been vacant for years.  The original plan was to turn it into a five-story building containing three luxury condominiums.  That, thankfully, was scrapped.  It's either going to come back to life as a modest triplex, or have the apartments merged to become a single-family house.

And behind that, where the alternator rebuild shop used to be, a new condo building is going up. 

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Virtual sketchcrawl - new media

I'd bought a cheap kid's set of watercolor pencils, months ago, at Freddy's, but had never tried them.  So, with today's theme of trying a different media than you usually use, I dragged them out.

Obviously, I couldn't sketch the pencils themselves, not in their true colors at least, so I let other pencils stand in.  And the highlights didn't work very well.  There was a white pencil in the box, but, wet or dry, it didn't seem to end up in the drawing.

For my second sketch, I dragged everything outside, and huddled under my eaves to do one of the dogwood blossoms.  To make the white stand out, I cut apart one of the multitude of paper grocery sacks that I've brought home during the pandemic.

And, again, the white was pretty pathetic.

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Just a finger

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Yet another hand

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Another hand

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Hand again

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Political sketch

Another assignment from Mary.

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Virtual sketchcrawl - Continuous line

Another session of sketching together, while at home.  This time Kalina had issued a challenge, of sketching using continuous line.  I wasn't sure that it'd actually work on a tablet, since I use my big fat finger, but I tried it anyway, sketching the sewing machine with a half-done face mask still under the presser foot.

By the time I was done with that the bread that I'd left in the toaster oven was done, so I pulled it out, arranged it 'artfully', pulled up a stool and did that.

Finished that, salivating, because the bread just smelled so good, and then cut the bread open to have a chunk.  And then another.  And then sketched what was left.

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