Plein-Air at Beechwood Farms Pittsburgh

 Plein - air artists that came to the paint out at the Beechwood Farm  Nature Reserve in Pittsburgh last Sunday

Carol at pastel

Vickie with oil

Bill Sketching

 

Barb with oil

My daughter Taylor,11 years old going on 30!

Sketching and watercolor

 

My attempt at adding book pages after sketching and starting. Though I know now I will try this again but probably put pages down before I go. I don't like it but I like it enough to keep seeing where I will go with this combination.

Contours,Donuts and Diet Coke to get the Day Started

Contours,Donut and Diet Coke by Susan Walker all rights reserved

Few contour line drawing, My brain is off to a slow starting Monday and I find doing contours a way of starting things moving in a creative yet "No Brainer" way. Not concerned about the final out come of the sketch just rolling my eye and hand along the outside..la la la. There-a drawing.And another and my brain is happier. (the diet coke and donut didn't hurt either. Other than sticking to my thighs...)

How do you do things going on a slow start day?

More on contour lines exercises to improve your drawing skills stop by this post.
http://susanwalkerartlessons.blogspot.com/

Ink sketches splashed with watercolor

Moleskine watercolor sketchbook, some final pages in this sketchbook. I'm afraid and 'saving' the last for something. Though at the time of this post I have moved on to another sketchbook,my first that I have made and leave behind the blank white last pages. Instead of waiting for the right something and holding myself up I just moved on... 

Nobody in waiting room today...but me and the furniture

Registration area. Inked one day, watercolor added next day

Artist Pitt pen and watercolor multi tasking granddad

A yearning for Spring-Watercolor and ink Dahlia in sketchbook journal

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In the mood for spring and this flower on the  cover of a magazine in the waiting room caught my eye. I think it might be some type of dahlia. I started this in ink and then added the watercolor. It took about 40 minutes.

A bit of sermon notes. Ended up leaving with the family as one of the kids got sick.

Good lesson from Haggai.

Keeping up the sketching while waiting-still

A few sketches I have been doing while waitng...all with either the Artist Pitt pen xf or micron .03 pen in moleskine watercolor sketchbook.

These top to sketchbool pages i did while waitng for

Zachary at occupational therapy.

some of the dads at Colton's boyscout meeting

I added the watercolor washes in the waiting room. I used the niji waterbrush and a small Daler-Rowney portable watercolour pallet.I laid a clear water wash around the images. then with a juicy brush full of Prusian blue and prusian green was my color choice to lay in the wet wash.very eay to push around.

Sketchbook pages in ink:catching up

here is a few pages from my moleskine sketchbook I did while at The Children's Institute with my son. I was busier there with him attending physical and occupational therapy than i was sitting at the hospital. i managed to do a few of these while he slept or while he was in a pool game with a fellow patient. I used. my Artist Pitt pen XF or my micron 03 black pen in my watercolor molskine (the pink label)

Here i started with the bag then added some journal notes later. Came back another night and laid the shell through it and was inspired to jot down a pattern for a future tangle doodle.

This big guy here was in the playroom fish take. he was a good 4 inches. a great subject as when another fish came close he swam around the plant and sat right back where he was. i think he is some kind of algae eating fish.

this one here i sketched of Zach in pencil while he worked in speech. There is a fairly good likeness. I am pleasantly surprised. When I look at it i feel this point we were at. with his almost smooth head and very raw point in all his.