Showing posts with label Nova Scotia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nova Scotia. Show all posts

Friday, November 13, 2009

Vitual Paintout Part Two (A Story of Three Pieces)

For my second submission to Vitual Paintout this month, is this lovely building in Halifax.

I don't draw buildings much. The last building I remember drawing was when I was about 18. I drew a pencil sketch of a house on Divisadero in San Francisco.

NO STRAIGHT EDGES WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS DRAWING. I don't use straight edges or compasses in my art work. I think some art teacher I had told the class we couldn't use them and I have been in the habit ever since. Which of course makes for a lot of drawing and erasing. A lot. Hence the rather leaning windows and lines curving where they shouldn't.

My Original PITT ink drawing.



I was too chicken to add color to the original. So in to the scanner the original went and out printed a new copy on watercolor paper. Very creative use of purple pink.

Too much color. Another print on watercolor paper and a visit with my old friend Payne's Grey yielded the picture which was actually submitted.
Edit: AutumnLeaves left a comment regarding this post that somehow cannot be posted in the comments section. Thank you for the comment: "This is beautiful" I really appreciate this and all comments.

Monday, November 9, 2009

2288 Shore Drive, Halifax, NS

Done for this month's Virtual Paintout of Nova Scotia. This is a golf club located on an old military installation complete with bunkers.
I am not the best landscape painter (no kidding) but I have to practice.