Course work: Since no clouds were visible, using charcoal, and working from my photo collection, I sketched a sky with stratus clouds hovering over a treeline: the trees add substantially to the impression of depth. Then using sanguine Conté and charcoal, sketched a post-sunset sky with red and grey stratus clouds from my photo collection: this was a much less convincing effort. Late in the afternoon, some cumulus clouds with a tendency to develop toward cumulonimbus appeared, and I sketched some of these with charcoal. The tone of the cloud bases is virtually identical to that of the blue sky, and the cloud bases appear to blend almost imperceptibly into the sky. When I returned to the porch later, I noticed a strong tendency to vertical cumulus development, and sketched part of this buildup as best I could with a sanguine Conté crayon. Both these cumulus studies are reasonably satisfactory to me.
Reading:
Rose-Marie & Ranier Hagen What Great Paintings Say (Vol. 1)
Taschen, Köln, 2005
Pp 320-326
Personal sketchbook work: A quick figure sketch with a sanguine Conté crayon, to refresh some of my Assignment Two learning: I think some review of these earlier assignments is needed.
Total time: 1 hour 34 minutes
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