On A Wet Day

[Balaji]

This is a pen, ink, and watercolour wash sketch on 5.5" x 8.5" 250 gsm Canson Graduate cold pressed paper. It is based loosely on a newspaper photograph by Velankanni Raj.

 

[Jo Castillo]

This is great. I like the watery reflections and general wet look. Applause.

 

[MurrayG]

Great job. Definitely a rainy day. Lovely watercolour sketch. Nice.

 

[Donna T]

It does look like a rainy day - very nice!

 

[Joy]

Excellent job of portraying the wet road. The vanishing perspective, with the lighter values and less detail as the viewer gazes into the distance is quite effective. When I see photos for challenges, I immediately feel they are all to complicated and have extreme difficulty in simplifying shapes. You are able to capture the essence with just the appropriate amount of information.

 

[ams]

Very nice Balaji. I also like the way you captured the perspective in the scene and the wet road.

 

[Balaji]

Jo, Murray, Donna, Joy, & Anne...Thank you.

 

[Balaji]

Excellent job of portraying the wet road. The vanishing perspective, with the lighter values and less detail as the viewer gazes into the distance is quite effective. When I see photos for challenges, I immediately feel they are all to complicated and have extreme difficulty in simplifying shapes. You are able to capture the essence with just the appropriate amount of information.

I have had great difficulty with simplification because I love to sketch details too. But, over the last few years I have made a deliberate effort to simplify the pictures that I create. Some months ago I did over a hundred 10 minutes to 20 minutes sketches in a matter of five or six weeks. I did it for another reason but that exercise seems to have helped me to quickly see the essentials, discard the unnecessary, and represent what I wish to with fewer lines.

But I still have a long way to go before this becomes second nature to me..