Brick house on Lakeshore
Posted: May 11, 2019 Filed under: Uncategorized 15 CommentsShadow patterns are worth waiting for. They add so much to a scene, don’t you think? When I started out sketching this house on Lakeshore Road in Pointe Claire, it was sunny, but then clouds appeared. I painted the local colours of the house and trees, but the scene was flat. I’m an optimist, though. A patient optimist. I loaded up my brush with shadow colour and waited. And waited. And waited. When the sun reappeared, I rewet my brush and quickly added in the shadow areas. I probably could have tried to do this from memory but the shadow patterns from the mostly bare trees were quite dynamic and I wanted to get it right.
Shari Blaukopf's Sketchbook 
How strange that it would have been a shadow of itself without them!
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Tony, are you enjoying spring too? Hope so. Thanks for making me smile today.
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My pleasure. Grateful our winters are so much milder and our springs so much earlier than your’s. Then again we do have Brexit!
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That Brexit thing just goes on and on. I read The Guardian online everyday, and I must say that no matter how much I read about the subject, it’s still sounds like chaos to me. But at least you have flowers…
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Oh I love your colours… love love love so much
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You have those same colours. xoxo
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I do.. I do.. me no shari but
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Bonjour Shari, Je suis très intéressée par tout événement que vous organisez cet été. Merci et au plaisir de participer. Danièle Lemay
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Bonjour Danièle,
The workshops have filled up for this summer but I can put you on the mailing list for next year. What is your email address? Shari
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Lovely light! I was having the same shadow issues today.
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Your adding of shadows makes the scene pop out as if in 3D!
Thanks for waiting and getting it right!
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Shadows are worth waiting for…especially in this case. Well done!
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nice scene, it looks like a beautiful view on an overcast spring day.
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Your beautiful artwork brightened my day. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks so much Charity.
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