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9feb13 Pyrmont intersection
After an hour of linework, I was keen to add colour - 60mins other page, 30mins this page with another 30mins for colour on both, approx 10am till noon.
I took this photo at the beginning of the session and you can see the obvious attraction of the 'path of light' leading to the lit-up pub facade. Normally I would have focussed on the wonderful architectural detail, but opted today for a streetscape 'painting' because I'm trying more consciously to fill the entire page these days in my 'slow' architectural sketches.
The intersection and the former shop/surrounding houses were quite at odds with each other; ideally they would have been done as separate, unconnected sketches. I liked the intersecting planes of solid colour in the crumbling walls, relatively rare corrugated iron roof and 19th-century chimneys.
Lots of locals stopped to look and comment, obviously very proud of the architectural diversity they live amongst. The inclusion of the ANZAC Bridge was very fortuitous but I didn't do it justice. The streets were very quiet, but most Inner West businesses don't open till 11am on weekends because everyone sleeps in after the busy working week.
Sketching colleagues produced an amazing array of views and vignettes (what Paul Hogarth would call "memorabilia" for use in his composite/"improvised" pen drawings) and a group of us went off to see the Francis Bacon exhibition, lugubrious and visceral, before it closes next weekend.
sketchblog gasp2011.wordpress.com
9feb13 Pyrmont intersection
After an hour of linework, I was keen to add colour - 60mins other page, 30mins this page with another 30mins for colour on both, approx 10am till noon.
I took this photo at the beginning of the session and you can see the obvious attraction of the 'path of light' leading to the lit-up pub facade. Normally I would have focussed on the wonderful architectural detail, but opted today for a streetscape 'painting' because I'm trying more consciously to fill the entire page these days in my 'slow' architectural sketches.
The intersection and the former shop/surrounding houses were quite at odds with each other; ideally they would have been done as separate, unconnected sketches. I liked the intersecting planes of solid colour in the crumbling walls, relatively rare corrugated iron roof and 19th-century chimneys.
Lots of locals stopped to look and comment, obviously very proud of the architectural diversity they live amongst. The inclusion of the ANZAC Bridge was very fortuitous but I didn't do it justice. The streets were very quiet, but most Inner West businesses don't open till 11am on weekends because everyone sleeps in after the busy working week.
Sketching colleagues produced an amazing array of views and vignettes (what Paul Hogarth would call "memorabilia" for use in his composite/"improvised" pen drawings) and a group of us went off to see the Francis Bacon exhibition, lugubrious and visceral, before it closes next weekend.
sketchblog gasp2011.wordpress.com