Big Catch up #2

Big Catch up #1

New Sketchbook

I bought a new sketchook the other day. I was actually going to the store to get supplies to bind a new book and saw this. It has such an interesting cover and different (for me) thick paper with wonderfully deckled edges. Plus its a new format. SO, why not give it a try. Picts are: 1. The outside , pages are 6" x 9" +/- cover a bit larger 2. First page is always my favorite. Palette testing. I added a few to the tiny travel pallette i nade from an antique eyeglass case purchased during the lisbon symposium. 3. And the last image is my first sketch in the book. It will take some time to get used to the new fiberous paper. But i am intrigued. THat's it for now. Planning on getting some good sketching in this weekend is the weather holds :)

This is just one from the last few weeks. I have been beter about updated my flickr account than the blog lately. http://www.flickr.com/photos/broadhurststreet/ More to come

10 March 2012- High Falls

SItting in the car again losing all track of time sketching away. ...

03.04.12 Kodak

I sat in the car sunday in front of the WXXI studios to draw this. I've been itching to do it for a while but could not find the time.

I've started a new flickr group called Sketch Rochester. Here's the link http://www.flickr.com/groups/1946464@N23/. If anyone out there is in Rochester, is sketching our fine city and has a flickr account please join me(or create and account and join me :). Let's see if we can document the whole city!!

Happy Sketching.

Feb 21-28

Week 3 -2012 (delayed)

Week 2- 2012

This weeks work... i went to an Occupy event, made a sketch book that's 4" x 5",sketched my partner while she practiced for her show and went to the conservatory. Where I got some sketching in on my giant (A4 i think) moleskine. I pre-painted two pages and worked over those. The last is a WIP i may post that when it's done.

2012 Week 1

I think I am resolve to the fact that life is busy(or rather I make my life busy).

An instead of stressing about not posting everyday or using the time to post,I would rather use that time to sketch.

So I will try weekly posts that cover all I have done each week.

Here is week 1 of the new year.






Below is a "window" through the trees and branches at the conservatory. (the color on all of my scans is off :(



This is the design/sketch for the wall i built my partner



and this the finished product:

Stargazer Lily

bought these for my girl two weeks ago and there are still a few going strong.

Guest Room

at Evan and David's

Waiting at The Gladstone

a bulk post

A few things from this week. I will be in Toronto for the next few day and hope to have time to sketch there.

Tupperware

A quick sketch at lunch. I have been watching art documentaries during on my break and get so inspired i had to sketch WHILE watching.

The result are so-so but the feeling while drawing was priceless.

I am using the Stillman & Birn ketchbook from the symposium. The format is a little smaller than i usually use but this will be an excersise in drawing across the gutter. ( well not in this sketch)

A new plan....

to document the city i live in. More to come soon

New mini palette and lazy

I just realized how dormant this blog has been. I am sketching but not posting. Some if it has been that the sketches were for me only and the rest, well that's just been laziness.

It's all about to change :)

To start off the rebirth of this blog is a quick photoshop collage of my new mini palette. (The center image is actual size. the top and bottom were adjusted to fit the canvas)

While in Lisbon for the Urban Sketching Symposium my girlfriend and I stopped at a few antique shops. One of them had this old eyeglass case w/ glasses. Immediately I thought it would make a great palette for my purse. So with a little coaxing we were able to buy just the case. (it was dirt chewap too)

It currently has 5 half pans and a brush i cut down. There's a pen barrel that I have kept on the brush to protect the bristles in my purse. So if I flip it around it acts as an extender making for the right length brush. (similar to Cathy Johnson's drinking straw idea)

The palette measures 4 3/8" x 1 3/4" x 5/8" and weighs almost nothing!!!

I finished it last night so we'll see how it works. I must say it fits anywhere.

Waiting for coffee time

The sky is washed out for some reason on thhis scan.

Pear

A friend brought me in a bag of pears from her garden. It was so good ( i usually don't like the texture) and so tough to stop and sketch when i wanted to eat it.

Water for Sudan benefit

I drew this last Friday night while waiting for the benefit show to start. This Other Life (thisotherlife.us )and Left on Red (http://www.leftonredmusic.com/) played at a church to raise money for the Water for Sudan organization. They are a local not for profit who's "mission is simple: drill borehole wells which bring safe drinking water to the people in South Sudan's remote villages, transforming lives in the process. " check out their website for more info http://www.waterforsudan.org/mission/

It was such a good night. Awesome music, great company, sketching and doing for others. Need i saw more...

found sketches from Portugal

I found these small sketches from Portugal in the pocket of my sketchbook. A few times i went out wiht just a small bag which i put some folded paper in. You know a girl cannot leave the house (or hotel) without paper and a pen. :) So here they are. One from dinner out, one from a lunch stop at a wonderful cafe in Sintra and the last done during a Fado dinner show.
It's crazy how looking at a sketch can transport you back to a moment so quickly.

Waiting for dinner

Over the weekend I had dinner with friend and family. Luckily ( I never thought I would say luckily about this) there was an hour wait. So we got to sit outside by the water, have good conversations AND i got to sketch. Which was followed by a good dinner and ice cream.

Does it get any better?????

So here was the sketch. Not sure I am done with it but I figured I'd post in case I can't get back to it.

Drawn with Noodlers Flex pen and Noodlers Polar Brown Ink

South Wedge Market results

We had a sketchcrawl at the South Wedge Farmers Market on the 4th. It was the second of 2 events coordinated with the market.

We had a great time drawing, chatting with the passers and recruiting people to join our band of merry sketchers.

These things are so great. I love that we can get the creative word out there. One by one I think we can get everyone out there sketching and truly seeing the world around us. At least that's what I hope. :)


The highlight of the night for me was meeting the newest sketchcrawl member... see the sketch below. :)

II International Urban Sketching Symposium- Lisbon

I cannot begin to describe what a fantastic experience i had at the Urban Sketching Symposium in Lisbon. I had the opportunity to meet so many amazing people from all over the globe. All of us sharing the same passion for capturing the world around us.

I got to see so many different styles of sketching, learn new techniques not only from the workshops but from the artists around me.

One of my favorite things was being able to see other peoples sketch books. Throughout the workshops and lectures and down time people swap sketchbooks. The amount of inspiration i got from that is immeasurable.

Well, as you can tell i loved everything about it and I haven't even talked about how beautiful the city was.

So, here are my sketches from the first few workshops. There is a following post with the remaining workshops sketches as well as the one i worked on during the 32nd World Wide SketchCrawl.
-Enjoy

II International Urban Sketching Symposium- Lisbon

These are the skecthes from ths last two workshops and the 32nd World Wide Sketchcrawl which coincided with the last day of the symposium.
It was so amazing to have nearly 300 people all drawing in the same place.