New York, Chinatown. I made the outlines in pencil on location, used fountainpen and some watercolour when we returned back home. http://renefijten.blogspot.com/
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Margie 3:25 pm on May 28, 2009 | #
really good – I like the loose, free feel of it
Sophie Brown 6:51 pm on May 28, 2009 | #
I think I know this street, and it’s interesting because if you were paying more attention to color than line it would be pretty busy and a completely thing. I really admire your work because my own drawings are never to scale. I was going to go and try to draw the Great Lawn because I think it would be good to draw what’s NOT THERE to help learn some perspective. Your perspective is good, that’s what I meant. I also wonder why all of the old watertowers are so ignored as subjects. All of these things that weren’t meant to be appealing to the eye.
renefijten 3:05 am on May 29, 2009 | #
Sophie, nice of you to say that. Actually, I wanted to paint the colourful signs, but my wife was tired of walking the streets, so we went for coffee leaving me with the pencil lines only.
Back home I realised the colours would diminish the perspective and diminish the watertower-at-the-end-of-the-canyon effect, so I decided to make it B&W. With exception of the red sign, which in reality is only half the size… artistic freedom.
About perspective, I am an architect, perspective drawing comes natural to me. Either you learn it well, or even better, make it your trademark not to be perfect. Some of the best known paintings have lousy perspective. Van Gogh. De Chirico. Picasso. Da Vinci. Chagall. And modern art doesn’t do perspective at all.
rmcarey 4:40 am on May 29, 2009 | #
Outstanding scene and so well drawn.
Sophie Brown 8:35 am on May 29, 2009 | #
I also thought the black and white gives the impression of maybe very early in the morning. Then no matter how colorful the neighborhood it’s kind of gray and monotone and still very beautiful.