This is so full of joy --- all the greens are so rich and evocative.Your brush strokes give a perfect sense of water moving. But, Anthony, you've got a scanner and a laptop in the wilderness? I call that dedication.
Ha - ha, thanks, Laura; but no scanner in the wilderness. Had to bring the paper back to "civilization" to do that stuff.
I did color, from memory, some of these sketches later in Photoshop - hopefully that isn't cheating. The original sketch of Joan beading, for instance, didn't show the strange mottled color from the trees, so I took the liberty of filling in remembered atmosphere.
I don't know how you can capture such fast moving action! and compose it so beautifully too! too much to make this "click to enlarge" as the one above? (thanks for adding it, I love that feature, I want to study these up close, they're so great!)
Thanks, Cin, for the nice comment. Actually I knew I wanted to capture on paper one of the many rafters drifting past our campsite (about every other minute) so I found a spot and drew everything except the kid on the raft, leaving a white "hole" in the middle of the page, and waited for someone to pass by. Soon enough a kid looking remarkably like one of my daughters drifted into the spot. I closed my eyes and "froze" her pose, taking note of everything I could, opened again for one last look as she went down stream; then I set to drawing her in the white area in the middle of the page. Here's the original scan, that's a bit larger. I'll try to do the "click to enlarge" thing a bit more often. Thanks again
many thanks for your explanation and the enlargement! I am just beginning to try and draw from memory and am discovering that mine is very poor, this would have been too much of a blur for me to capture, I hope this is something that improves with practice!
noticing especially the shadows across the rocks and water this time, those few strokes add so much, they are gorgeous!
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This is so full of joy --- all the greens are so rich and evocative.Your brush strokes give a perfect sense of water moving. But, Anthony, you've got a scanner and a laptop in the wilderness? I call that dedication.
Ha - ha, thanks, Laura; but no scanner in the wilderness. Had to bring the paper back to "civilization" to do that stuff.
I did color, from memory, some of these sketches later in Photoshop - hopefully that isn't cheating. The original sketch of Joan beading, for instance, didn't show the strange mottled color from the trees, so I took the liberty of filling in remembered atmosphere.
I don't know how you can capture such fast moving action! and compose it so beautifully too! too much to make this "click to enlarge" as the one above? (thanks for adding it, I love that feature, I want to study these up close, they're so great!)
Thanks, Cin, for the nice comment. Actually I knew I wanted to capture on paper one of the many rafters drifting past our campsite (about every other minute) so I found a spot and drew everything except the kid on the raft, leaving a white "hole" in the middle of the page, and waited for someone to pass by. Soon enough a kid looking remarkably like one of my daughters drifted into the spot. I closed my eyes and "froze" her pose, taking note of everything I could, opened again for one last look as she went down stream; then I set to drawing her in the white area in the middle of the page. Here's the original scan, that's a bit larger. I'll try to do the "click to enlarge" thing a bit more often. Thanks again
many thanks for your explanation and the enlargement! I am just beginning to try and draw from memory and am discovering that mine is very poor, this would have been too much of a blur for me to capture, I hope this is something that improves with practice!
noticing especially the shadows across the rocks and water this time, those few strokes add so much, they are gorgeous!
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