Selling hats
Posted: July 22, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 10 CommentsI have been told that when I am sketching I am oblivious to everything around me (including people taking photos and videos) and, in this case, an impending thunderstorm. I did the drawing for this sketch (and had a nice chat with a vendor trying to sell me some jewelry) and when I turned around to make the long trek back along the hot beach I noticed the blackening sky. In the islands the rain comes upon you very quickly so when I felt the first few drops I hid my precious moleskine (the one with all of my symposium work!) under my shirt and ran the rest of the way back.
i love your vibrant colours and the way they play with the fun variety of shapes and patterns Shari. This is like a mosaic of colour and your figures move with the rhythm too! 🙂
This was a really fun one to do Mary. I finally found some of that tropical colour.
I enjoy seeing you employ two point perspective–something I’m struggling with at the moment.
Lovely work!
Thanks Valerie. I don’t think much about perspective when I’m drawing. I just draw what I see but I guess you are right about this. I was lucky enough to do a workshop with Frank Ching in Santo Domingo. He wrote the bible for architects on drawing perspective. I will write a post about it soon.
I just love all the color! Especially those yellow shirts.
Hope you share your SD sketches with us in PDX!
I absolutely plan on bringing them Linda. Especially since I didn’t lose any in the rain.
Thankyou, Shari, for this and all your posts from the Symposium…I can feel the atmosphere of this amazing place through your work. Can I ask you if you add the pen work before or after you apply the colour?
So glad you like them Ethna. There are lots more to come.
I did the pen work first and then added the colour. In the case of the last two I did the pen work on the spot and then added the colour later. It was just way too hot on the beach to paint. Plus it was a very long walk and I didn’t want to carry anything except the pad and a few pens. There was no way I could have brought any sort of bag along with me.
Love the looser work you are doing since the Symposium
Thanks Suzann! I love working like this too.