HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Pastel sketch on pastel paper by Linda

freehand design  -  pen and ink with light watercolor wash by Louise

INKTOBER, LINDA'S SKETCH

I have been very busy with a class I'm taking, but took sometime to do the InkTober sketch.

This is my neighbor's back porch.

Inktober at Pheasant Branch Prairie - Middleton

The prairie has been beautiful the past couple weeks with white and purple asters in bloom and cranes flying over.   I sketched mostly with the Pentel and Kuratake brush pens and added some color with watersoluble crayons.  It's  a challenge for me to stick with black and white and leave the color out of it.

InkTober Drawing Challenge 2015

I came across the InkTober drawing challenge in a recent email from the Artist's network.  It was apparently started in 2009 by artist Jake Parker.  You can find out all about it at: http://mrjakeparker.com/InkTober 

October is such a great month to be out sketching so I decided to commit to one drawing a week and will post it on Draw:Madison and if I get more ambitious do a Flicker page.  Several sketching tools are suggested on Jake's site among them the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen (below) a favorite tool of mine and other Draw:Madison sketchers.  Hope to see some more ink drawings on our blog next month.  Happy InkTober to all Madison sketchers!!

UW MADISON Eagle Height Gardens.

Perfect day for plein air sketching and painting. Louisa, Elsie, William, Linda, Gretchen & Louise took part in Draw Madison.

DURANGO, AUGUST 2015, LINDA

I attended a drop-in portrait session.  Others were painting.  I had no painting supplies with me, so I drew.   11 x 14:

A sketch of aspens, La Plata County, Colorado.  7 x 10:

Allen Centennial Gardens/UW Madison Campus

 

Summer view beyond the bridge/by Elsie

 Queen Anne house overlooking the gardens/by Louise 

 

View overlooking Japanese style gardens /by Pat

 

Paoli Community Park/by Pat

 

Henry Vilas Zoo/by Gretchen

Cherokee Marsh Park 

by  Gretchen

Sketch break at UW Memorial Union by Louise.

Nathan Fowkes Materials List

Nathan Fowkes is a professional artist and illustrator who, for fun,  paints great small landscape paintings en plein air.  His materials all fit in a fanny pack and I find it amazing what he does with such limited materials.  He doesn't use much water with his paintings and often mixes watercolor paints with white gouache for really nice opaque effects.  He likes painting on acid free brown paper and his paintings really glow on it. You can see his work on his blog: nathanfowkes-sketch.blogspot.com/ .  He really is a master at capturing dramatic lighting effects esp at sunset.  He also has some great black, grey and white value studies on the blog including the very few materials he uses to do those. His plein air kit would be great for urban sketching, too.

Linda's Sketch, Olbrich Gardens, May 31, 2015


The Thai Pavilion looked so lovely, but was challenging to draw.  I thought I might go back to Olbrich to finish the roof tiles, as they presented a perspective problem, due to the different facing surfaces of the roofs.  However, the weather continues to be pollen-laden and windy, not good for my allergies.

 

Sunday sketchers at Rosie's Garden-part of St Mary's Hospital grounds...

May 26, 2015

I haven't been outdoors sketching due to too many things to do and to my allergies.  The pollen this Spring has been awful.

Since classes ended, I'm glad to be back sketching.  This is Shep.

Sketching in the rain at Olin Turville Park.

Rain and more rain at Olin Turville Park.

Sketch by Grethen

Olin Turville Park - off and on down-pours

By Louise

Evening Performance with Madison Community Orchestra