He helped me with a few tricks, but said it was a successful study.
I throughly enjoyed the area. I was underneath a bridge and next to a major street, so the noise made it difficult to hear my mentor. Yet the habitat that has been created in the river is beautiful. If I looked upstream, there were ducks and water birds. Trees rooted in the concrete river bed, and who know what else lurked below us. The tags were eliminated from my drawings, as it is something that I do not find appropriate to advertise. There also is a path along the river and many folks were walking back from the market, or a few homeless were coming out of the darker areas, to walk to there next destination. I did not find any of it disturbing as they did not try to engage me. A nod or a smile was all that was exchanged.
It was a perfect morning, ending in a breaking of bread together at a small restaurant in Chinatown. The chicken noodle soup was simply delicious. Then we all finished the day next door at William's frame shop. He highly recommends The Framing House Design, and it appears that they do reasonable work.
Now, to just be able to push past the study stage onto finished work. I guess that would mean that I need to practice more.
Tuesday is another day.
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3 comments:
Cool we dont have dry rivers here. but there are plenty of homeless around ... sad. Are you going to take this to a larger painting now ?
And you call this a study? This looks really great! Studies seem to capture a good deal of the spontaneity of gesture and impression.. , I'm finding. I know we're all looking forward to more studies or finished pieces, whatever you're feeling like doing. :)
No large paintings for a while Terri. I need to learn how to catch the ball first.
Wendee, you are all too kind. Bring your gouache out and paint with us.
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