Course work: Further work on the foreground-midground-background drawing. Strengthened the uppermost sky tones a bit. Added a gate (from imagination) to break up the visual barrier of the fence, and to provide a little additional depth to the foreground. Added some detail to the extreme foreground.
Reading:
Rose-Marie & Ranier Hagen What Great Paintings Say (Vol. 2)
Taschen, Köln, 2005
Pp 434-445
Personal sketchbook work: A few random objects on or near my desk.
Weekly reflections on learning experience: Moved from working on skies to working on foreground-midground-background in a landscape: at least the latter stays still! By moving things around a bit, and adding clouds and a gate that weren’t present in my original photograph, I am getting near completion of this part of the exercise. Working with water-soluble pencil has proved something of a challenge: I have found it impossible to get a uniform wash. Several applications of pencil and water, interspersed with drying periods, seem to be required. At least in my hands a stiff bristle brush seems to produce better results than a softer watercolor brush.
Total time: 1 hour 25 minutes
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