Notre-Dame de Lourdes
Posted: October 9, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 5 Comments »The concepts I learned at the Urban Sketchers Symposium are thankfully still rattling around in my brain somewhere and I remembered one of them yesterday when I started this drawing. Architects and sketchers Frank Ching and Liz Steel taught me the importance of giving a sense of the whole building even if you are drawing a detail of it. Several months ago I might have only drawn the silvery, fishscale dome of the church but this time I remembered to suggest the rest of the building including the golden madonna. I am starting to appreciate the format of my new Moleskine sketchbook that allows me to continue my lines like this.
Nice to see you drawing as a change of diet Shari. I recall Marc commenting that the level of work and particularly the amount of colour had increased over the short life of urbansketchers, but I still love line work.
I still love line work too John. Everyone needs a change of diet sometimes…
I like both of your sketches from yesterday and today. But while I like really this yellow paper for working on, I think I prefer seeing a whiter background on the screen… so I like the scanner settings that you used for today’s sketch more than yesterday’s. Also, I am assuming that these are both done in the larger sketchbook, not the pocket size… is that right?
These are both done in the larger book. And after I posted the second one and noticed the difference in the background colour I said to myself “Ross is going to point this out!”.
I prefer the second one too.
Just another example of 291 people noticing but I am the only one who says something.