Practice and Rework

REWORK POST (7/12/2022):

I've modified yesterday's painted sketch to add to the perception that the time of day is sunset. Specifically, the sky and foreground road colors have been darkened. As a viewer, does it better convey to you that the sun is setting?

ORIGINAL POST (7/11/2022):

Today's practice effort is based on a photograph of an area in Florence. I've sketched it with a black Pentel PointLiner (0.3 mm) on a watercolor paper substrate (95 lb.). Japanese watercolors were used to paint it in.

I'm really liking the result. It's not meant to be perfect. Rather, it's meant to capture a moment and feeling.

What I liked most was the freedom of moving the pen quickly and making boxes that were wonky instead of square, playing with vanishing lines, depiction of architectural details without being architectural, the bicycle wheel spokes and the lines making up the figure and that make it come to life. This was actually fun to see develop and to try things I've never done before. It is probably one of the best 'play' pieces I've done--because I was truly playing. Yay for me!

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