First a lunchtime sketch of Ramsgate
Clockhouse or Maritime
Museum from the Royal
A photo from the same location.
The weather is just reaching the point
where it is good enough to sketch outside and I am getting back into practise
sketching familiar local buildings
The idea here is to do a quick freehand sketch,
without any assistance whatsoever, like holding your pencil at arms length or
drawing lines meeting at a vanishing point and then compare the sketch with the
photo and work out what went wrong.
Of course there was a time, before the
invention of photography, where I guess the artist was trying to get as close
to a photograph as possible, and I guess there is a sense where I could just as
well take a photograph instead.
In terms of how quick is quick the sketch
must have taken about ¾ of an hour, I get an hour for lunch and managed to
leave 10mins early today, had the all day breakfast inc cup of tea in The Royal
£5 so I guess I was in there for about an hour and it took ¼ hour to eat it.
I may ramble on
how come the slipways are not used anymore
ReplyDeleteAnon I guess the answer there is a tad complicated clicking here will give you the long answer, the short answer is the partly are still working, No1 is undergoing repairs at the moment and No3 is used sometimes.
ReplyDeleteyour painting has clearly captured the maritime museum, and is more expressive than the photograph
ReplyDeleteThanks for that anon, you reminded me to put the finished picture up, never really sure what expressive means in this sort of context, I was just trying to get as close as I could to what it looks like.
DeleteI think there is something about pictures copied from photos that I don't like as much as the ones drawn from life, lensy perhaps.