This past June I took a trip to Cuba with Margaret Hurst and Julia Sverchuk, along with other members of a group organized by Jim Richards and Marimar tours. I have still not finished scanning those drawings, and this week I am in Singapore with the Urban Sketchers Symposium, and staying on to do some drawing in South East Asia.
I will never catch up with the scanning – we need some kind of scanning drone to hover over us and capture the images as we make them on location! I’m not complaining, I feel so fortunate to have these opportunities to draw, I’m just saying, this fall there will be a lot of scanning and blog posting happening…
…I will be ALMOST as busy as the old woman sweeping the walkway who shows up in my drawing of this Havana park above. It was early morning, and there were booksellers arriving and setting up their stands. And this woman was all over the park. I drew her twice in the picture above, but she probably passed me at least twenty times while I was drawing it. What a dynamo! and she was ornery too – shooing people away from the areas she had just cleaned. Which the park goers found very amusing, as did I. Will post more on Cuba – and Singapore – when I get back home!
Your work is so amazing… :D I think I didn’t thank you for the inspiration yet, so thank yooou!! I am so jalous of the urban sketchers able to follow your class, recently, in Singapore. ;)
I will try to be in Manhattan next year for the symposium (I am French so it’s closer ! :) ). Do you think you will be here too ? :)
I love studying your work, noticing how you compose the picture to focus our attention on the subject and choose to draw only a part of a scene… and how you loosen up your lines and shapes to produce expressive pieces…
I really like a loose approach but I find my work sometimes gross when I try to loosen up… The details often allow me to give life to the subject… Sometimes, I feel I could paint and draw looser, that my work is too tight, but I always fear it will be more gross if I do so (it sometimes become like that, gross and naive, so…). I suppose that a loose approach with precise details would be great?!
(btw, le link I shared in the profile is my photographic blog but you can see my sketches here, if you are interested, https://instagram.com/annelaurewatercolor/ But please be indulgent!!…)
On another topic : this sketch you just posted is really small. Is it on purpose ?
On the high resolution screens we can use these days, such low resolution pictures are displayed in a really small size and it’s difficult to enjoy it…
Could you please keep sharing your sketches at a bigger size to let us enjoy it? :) Thank you so much!
Sorry, it seems I am chatty today, with my rather bad English. I hope it won’t be too much awful for you to read me. ;)
Other idea crossing my mind : a video showing you at work would be absolutely AMAZING!!
Best regards.
Anne-Laure