The Autumn Plein Air Drawing with Colored Pencil Challenge is now over. I set out to draw ten plein air sketches between September 1 and October 31. Did I succeed? Yes! I ended up with 14 drawings. Topics and techniques varied, but I met my goal. I began and ended …
You don’t always have to spend a lot of time to get a nice sketch. Nor do you need a lot of pencils or other equipment. The fact is, all you really need is a piece of paper, one pencil, and a few minutes. That’s all I had Thursday afternoon …
The eighth week of the Autumn Plein Air Drawing challenge was not a good week. At least not for plein air drawing. No. That’s not strictly true. I did make a couple of attempts to get a drawing done. It’s just that none of them worked as I’d hoped. To …
Week Seven of the Autumn Plein Air Challenge is now complete. A number of things kept me from getting outside to draw most of the week, chief among them a decided cold snap! But I did find a comfortable chair in sunny spot one afternoon and had access to an …
Week 6 of the Autumn Plein Air Drawing with Colored Pencil Challenge was a challenge. I worked on an oil portrait almost every day for an hour or two because I want to finish this month (it’s almost there!). The two final lessons in the Basic Drawing series also needed …
Fall is definitely approaching! I could feel its chill breath even in the late afternoons this past week. I finished the week with two plein air drawings. One worked and one, well. I’ll show you what I did and let it go at that. I doodled a tree from imagination …
For week 4 of the Autumn Plein Air Drawing Challenge, I turned my attention from the front porch (where the light is almost always good) to the back porch, which is in shadow most of the afternoon and evening. Since it was mid-evening before I took time to draw, almost …
The sky was my theme again this week. The drawing from last week revealed my need to find better ways to put color on paper quickly and draw smooth color. One of the ways I thought of to do that was woodless pencils. When Sue Schuetz mentioned using Koh-I-Nor Progresso …
This was the first full week of the Autumn Plein Air Drawing challenge, so I had time to do more than one drawing. However, steady sometimes heavy rain from Wednesday through Saturday kept me indoors the rest of the week. I seriously considered trying my hand a water soluble colored …
It was a short week and busy, so not much time to draw. But I did manage to get outside early Friday evening (September 2) and found a sapling growing next to a larger tree a few feet from our front porch. The Method I Used I started the drawing …
