2a and 2b - “landscape” - mini roadside landscape
— non-virtual sketch
— sketched inside my mobile studio
— Pentel mechanical pencil (0.5)
— pocket sketchbook by Daler Rowney (from WalMart)
— (3.5” x 5.5”) (89mm x 140mm)
— freehand
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2c - “landscape” - abstract mini landscape
— virtual painting
— painted later, from imagination, indoors
(see below for explanation)
— iPad Pro
— Apple Pencil
— ProCreate app
— freehand, beginning with a blank canvas
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You guys helped me discover that my sketches could all be thought of as just “notes”, and that makes my Re-Learning to Draw Plan really fun for me. And Ai said something about making a painting based on the sketches being notes, and I decided to do that today!!!
TL;DR (too long, don’t read)
Part 2a was done from my mobile studio a couple of days ago. There was tall weed grass all along the side of the road, but one part caught my eye, because there were flowers mixed in all of a sudden. It looked like the grasses themselves made a special path for the flowers to join the grasses.
So I stopped my mobile studio, and did a really quick “note” scribble to remember how the flowers joined the grasses, along the path made for them by the grasses.
The scribble is the SH #167 item, and is my 3rd official ***Notes-to-Self Sketch***.
Then, yesterday and today, I was still thinking about the grasses making a path for the flowers, and decided to create a painting ***from imagination*** based on that “feeling” I first had driving by. So Part 2c is the little painting below, which I made based on the sketch, BUT painted in the Procreate app, starting from a blank canvas (NOT from the actual “note” sketch).
This is the first painting I’ve done in many years. Thank you all (and other kind people as well), for giving me back a moment of real life that I thought I would never experience again.
— non-virtual sketch
— sketched inside my mobile studio
— Pentel mechanical pencil (0.5)
— pocket sketchbook by Daler Rowney (from WalMart)
— (3.5” x 5.5”) (89mm x 140mm)
— freehand
——————————
2c - “landscape” - abstract mini landscape
— virtual painting
— painted later, from imagination, indoors
(see below for explanation)
— iPad Pro
— Apple Pencil
— ProCreate app
— freehand, beginning with a blank canvas
——————————
You guys helped me discover that my sketches could all be thought of as just “notes”, and that makes my Re-Learning to Draw Plan really fun for me. And Ai said something about making a painting based on the sketches being notes, and I decided to do that today!!!
TL;DR (too long, don’t read)
Part 2a was done from my mobile studio a couple of days ago. There was tall weed grass all along the side of the road, but one part caught my eye, because there were flowers mixed in all of a sudden. It looked like the grasses themselves made a special path for the flowers to join the grasses.
So I stopped my mobile studio, and did a really quick “note” scribble to remember how the flowers joined the grasses, along the path made for them by the grasses.
The scribble is the SH #167 item, and is my 3rd official ***Notes-to-Self Sketch***.
Then, yesterday and today, I was still thinking about the grasses making a path for the flowers, and decided to create a painting ***from imagination*** based on that “feeling” I first had driving by. So Part 2c is the little painting below, which I made based on the sketch, BUT painted in the Procreate app, starting from a blank canvas (NOT from the actual “note” sketch).
This is the first painting I’ve done in many years. Thank you all (and other kind people as well), for giving me back a moment of real life that I thought I would never experience again.
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— I can’t comment right now, but oh my goodness, so much wonderful art - I’ll be back later with comments 
I’ve been meaning to visit the other CS area you’ve found to share your work, but haven’t gotten there yet. I hope to visit you there later today or tomorrow. Give Bob a pet and a treat from here 
***insert cat food emoji here*** 
They make me happy 
