Art, writing, and general musings.
Bicycle Café, North Park, PA
For my painting class, I had to go around town and do five “thumbnail sketches” of landscapes. Only one of those sketches would be used to do a landscape painting, which was the next assignment.
This came out of one of the sketches my professor rejected.
A selection from a recent painting of mine. WordPress wouldn’t let me upload the full photo so I had to crop it 🙁
I met my fiancé at a convention in Baltimore, at one of the last events of the second day. After it was over, we couldn’t find anything else to go to or do, so we walked through the rooftop garden. Eventually we ended up sitting on a concrete bench at the edge of the sidewalk, looking into the cloudy sky. We sat together and talked until it started raining.
This is painted mostly from my memory and partially from the few photos I found of the Baltimore Convention Center rooftop garden (it’s a shame there aren’t more; it’s beautiful). Originally I tried to draw this with markers, but it wasn’t working the way I wanted, so I decided to pull out the oil paints and paint it instead.
More art today! This is a stylized copy of a Monet, specifically, The Bridge at Argenteuil. It was very difficult to get alcohol based markers on a standard-sized sheet of paper to resemble oil based paints on a huge canvas. Tell me what you think – should I do more copies of Great Art™?