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Now that the fine weather is here, I've started my regime of cycling-and-sketching once again. It gives me a chance to do some good cardio exercising as well as finding some time to do a little sketching pleine air. On this first day I managed to cycle around 30 km and spend about a half hour sketching this scene on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa. My sketching routine is to first outline the scene in pencil and then to start inking. Given my time restraints, I also take some photos of the scene and finish the inking later at my convenience at home. This system works for me - it gives me a chance to catch my breath when cycling, and it also puts something on my artistic to-do list. This scene, of course, is of Patterson Creek which I have sketched and painted several times in the past but mostly with winter scenes.
Maintenant que le beau temps est arrivé, j 'ai commencé mon régime du cyclisme et-esquisse une fois de plus. Cela me donne une chance de faire un bon exercise cardio ainsi que de trouver un peu de temps pour faire un peu de croquis pleine air. Cette première journée j'ai réussi à faire du vélo d'environ 30 km et environ une demi-heure à dessiner cette scène sur le canal Rideau à Ottawa. Ma routine d'esquisse est d'abord de définir la scène au crayon, puis commencer encrage. Compte tenu de mes contraintes de temps, je prends aussi quelques photos de la scène et je finis l'encrage plus tard, à ma convenance à la maison. Ce système fonctionne pour moi - il me donne une chance de reprendre mon souffle à vélo, et il met aussi quelque chose sur ma liste artistique de choses à faire. Cette scène, bien sûr, est du ruisseau Patterson que je viens d'esquisser et de peindre à plusieurs reprises dans le passé, mais la plupart du temps avec des scènes d'hiver.
this is an ink sketch I made of the Rockcliffe Boathouse and Marina on the Ottawa River. Many years ago when I had a small sailboat, I would stop at its convenient gasbar and take in some of the character of this unique place. It has a very nice restaurant patio on the river where you can have a meal while watching the boats go by. This boathouse dates from around 1918 when Jean Seguin, a ferryboat owner, built it. In 1992 it was destroyed by arson and the new owners rebuilt it. An article in the Ottawa Citizen recounts some of its history and a recent dispute between new owners and the NCC. I certainly hope that this landmark continues to operate on the river.
voici un croquis à l'encre de la Marina de Rockcliffe sur la rivière des Outaouais. Il y a de nombreuses années, lorsque j'avais un petit voilier, je m'arrêtais pour prendre de l'essence et pour admirer le caractère de ce lieu unique. Il possède un patio de restaurant unique sur la rivière où vous pourrez prendre vos repas tout en regardant passer les bateaux. Ce hangar à bateaux date d'environ 1918 lorsque son propriétaire, Jean Seguin, le construisit. En 1992, il a été détruit par un incendie criminel et les nouveaux propriétaires l'ont reconstruit. Un article paru dans le Ottawa Citizen raconte une partie de son histoire et un différend récent entre ses nouveaux propriétaires et la CCN. J'espère que ce point d'intérêt continue à fonctionner sur la rivière.
Through this photo, I wanted to be inside the decision-making — inside the decades of choices the tree had made about where to send each branch, how far, at what angle, toward which light. What I was after wasn't a picture of a tree but a picture of growth as drawing — the way a living thing, given enough time, produces something that looks completely inevitable and completely unrepeatable at the same time. There's a specific quality of winter light on a white sky that flattens everything into pure line and pure silence, and I pushed the contrast until the image stopped being a photograph of something and became the thing itself. I've walked past this tree a hundred times. This was the first time I looked up.
I was wandering around this building for a while trying to find the best angle. I found this spot and started sketching. Ten minutes later a woman came up to me and spoke to me in Macedonian. After a while I realised I shouldn’t be sat there as it was private. I had to finish the sketch from a photo, which I never do, but I had to capture it in it’s brutalist glory.
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Sur le toit terrasse de l'immeuble Plein Ciel au 16ème étage, vue sur le port de commerce.
Séance du 10 juin 2022 avec les Urban Sketchers Lorient.
Aquarelle et encre sur carnet Sketchbook Etchr
The church warden came out and lent me a book about the church. It used to be a swimming pool for army cadets!
Nimble
Expedition
Scout
Turret
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There he sat, by the overpass bridge, leaning against the light signal post. Beard untrimmed and clothes very worn but he was not dirty. Always looking at the ground instead of the passerbys. The cardboard sign in hand had the word 'HUNGRY" scribbled on it......right below that were two more words..."SEMPER FI". What I did next, when I got beside him at the stop light, is my business....He was a Vietnam Vet.
This had to be done with and ink pen and in my moleskine book...NFS. I couldn't get his face out of my head til I put it in the book...with honor.
7th and Broadway, K.C. Missouri. Prints on www.ThePointedBrush.blogspot.com
Incredible experience sat underneath this pier in a gale with 3 m waves thundering onto beach and the swish of shingle. Salt spray slowly fogged up my glasses. A passing metal detectorist said to be carefull, the tide was coming in. I had to move up the beach and the perspective changed. I was surrounded by sheltering seabirds.
Drawn to the sound of aircraft and a pedestrian crossing alarm. I kept having to blow off the dirt settling on my sketchbook.
These were fenced in domesticated geese. The wild ones would have flown off as soon as I’d sit down to sketch.
Good that I had to stop at this point as my train was coming, the sketch may have been overworked if I had more time.
On Sunday 12th August I’ll be showing and selling my work along with other designers at Hirchhof Fest in Karlsruhe.