Rockport repetition
Posted: June 27, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized 15 CommentsPart of what I love about my stay in Rockport is that right from my door I have subjects to sketch. I watch the tide come in and out of the harbour, I have a great view of the whole town and of course there’s a pile of lobster traps just waiting to be painted.
When I see opportunities for repeating objects in a sketch, I leap at the chance to include them. The three layers of wall, traps and town illustrate perfectly what I mean. For this sketch, I did no preliminary pencil drawing. The shapes are simple enough to go straight to brush. I started with the yellow traps, varying the shapes and colours as I went along by adding a little green and a bit of red as I painted from left to right. That colourful mass is sandwiched between two more neutral grey shapes — the silhouette of the town and the slightly darker stone wall in the foreground. When the first big shapes are dry I add the details with a finer brush — the lines that define the stones, the holes in the traps and a few details on the houses. Sketched on Fluid 100 CP paper.
Shari Blaukopf's Sketchbook 
Shari….thank you so much for sharing your process. It is really informative and helpful. Beautiful sketch !
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Thanks so much Nancy.
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Love your “easy” style. Appreciate you give details of how you did your painting. Helpful for a beginner…….
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I’m glad it was helpful Birte!
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Love it! So beautiful.
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Thanks for writing!
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You are welcome!
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No problem! I hope that you are having a wonderful day!
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Thanks for story, the telling of how this painting came to be. How it was painted allows us to understand better the beauty of your work in word and paint.
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Bernadette, as always, thanks!
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It would be challenging and fun if any of us where asked to guess and narrate the way the sketches came along like in the content description.
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That would be fun for me to read too!
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I’m enjoying this Rockport collection so much! I am hoping to take a weekend trip for my birthday and you have inspired me to visit Rockport! Can you recommend lodging and possible restaurants? I am about an hour away.
Also, I just finished your Craftsy classes and have learned so much. You are a wonderful artist and teacher. Hoping to take a workshop with you some day!
Wendy
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Hi Wendy,
You will love Rockport! I cook and stay at a private home so I don’t have any advice but I sure can tell you where to paint. Anything around Rockport or Gloucester, especially around the harbours is extremely scenic! Have a great time!
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Great view of the lobster traps and the stone wall! Just enough detail.
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