This place used to be cool for burgers, round fries with cheese and orangeade, but now “Five brothers and fries” in Kingston overshadowed it. When Inna was a meat eater we liked to go there. Now I was lonely chewer, gazing out of the window and drew my leftover with new Bijou watercolors. I was mad nervous. It got dark too fast. Should I use a pen over?
Ziza 5:31 am on October 16, 2009 | #
Your Bijou box (the one I’m envious about), and your Kolinsky brush, are starting to pay-off! I love your painting, and please do not turn it into “childish” coloured drawing!
In other words NO PEN! With that it would loose perfect atmosphere it now has.
I want more of those!
ziza 5:51 am on October 16, 2009 | #
Is that a glass of water with your daVinci burush submerged in? (wink, wink)
Nikira 6:26 am on October 16, 2009 | #
Ziza, thank you. lol. I didn’t use Kolinski, because didn’t have water, I had brush with me, in the bag, though, used waterbrush. I was not easy be so exposed around people, even in the corner, even had to calm down not to choke young cleaning boy, who was probably curious, circled around me and snuched my tray. I can’t allow Kolinski in this messy atmosphere.
This was Orangeade. Bijou is amazing, but I need a mixing palette, I forgot to order. Something small and tight.
roseindigo 11:40 am on October 16, 2009 | #
This is a lovely sketch just as it is, with a lot of atmosphere. No ink lines needed here! I totally agree with Ziza on this one.
Nikira 9:04 pm on October 16, 2009 | #
Rose, I thought it would be more like japanese sketching approach with watercolor and line. Colors in Sketch Molly looks to pale. When can we see your travel experience?
trebor61 5:23 am on October 17, 2009 | #
Another lovely wee scene. Just accept this as it is. I don’t think it needs alteration
roseindigo 12:07 pm on October 17, 2009 | #
Personally I feel uncomfortable without ink lines for my own sketches in a Moly, but you seem to do very well without them. I think that’s because I want to get the essence of a scene down clearly before I start in with color, and I have this weird theory that I need clear outlines because my eyesight has always been so bad. I love impressionistic painting, but couldn’t live with it on my walls because of the lack of clarity. Looking at something like that over the long term makes me feel like I’m going blind. So it’s just an idiosyncratic personal handicap.
But I love looking at work like yours which has clear edges in most places, suggestion in other places and is just a nice painting. This one is once again very, very nice and I love your color choices.
Anyhow, more travel adventures are coming up. I did fill a whole Moly with sketches, some OK and some not so OK—-but that’s what sketchbooks are for—to make mistakes, so I don’t let it bother me. I plan to do some larger versions of some of the places I saw on good watercolor paper, and without ink outlines. It’s always amazing to me how different papers give you various effects with watercolor, some of them “soaking up” the color more than others. Will be interesting to see if they turn out. It’s that cussed “botanical” side of me that seems to need all the detail and the outlines, and I’m always fighting with it. So I’m hoping if I go larger I can win the battle with the ink outlines and still have the clarity that I need.