The Savannah area is rich with wonderful locations to draw and paint!
The past few Saturday mornings have been spent at various location around Savannah - in the oak shrouded squares, the City Market, down on River Street and across the River on Hutchinson Island - we observe, we draw and we paint. EVERYTHING is reference!
We work in various medium- pencil, ballpoint pen, ink pen, watercolors with a brushpen.
The brush pen is a handy tool for On Location sketching. The water is contained in the body of the brush which makes it easy to use with a dry watercolor set and/or an ink pen. With an ink pen, you just paint over the lines of the sketch to create values.
Armed with our pens, pencils, watercolors, a selection of papers, a sketchbook, bug spray, a packback and a water bottle, we set out to discover the environs of Savannah.
Here is last week's sketch from City market. City Market is a very lovely pedestrian shopping area with art galleries, shops and. cafes. It's a great place to watch people. And, it is also the area where the horse drawn carriage tours pick up their passengers.
This sketch is drawn in ballpoint (no pencil under sketch) and is a compilation of two sketches. The horse and carriage was one sketch and then I added information from an earlier sketch with the trees, gazebo and other background elements.
As I mentioned...EVERYTHING IS REFERENCE!
Beat me...make me go out to a city like Savannah and draw and paint!
