ESCAPE-ELM GROVE AND THE MILKY WAY

 iPad Procreate aids in sorting out a colour strategy, as well as cropping the sketch, adding distortions, and trying out squirrel v.s. sparrows as punctuation.

I worked on this composition over a year ago. After reducing my colours to 2 or 3, a split complimentary group of yellow, teal, and violet seems to work, to get the transparency in the shadows and the glimmer in the highlights. Exaggerating the angles of vertical posts to a four-dimensional distortion makes the sky a more interesting shape and the space inside the balcony more angular and more interesting. The pink underpainting will contrast well with the teal.

Queen Fresh Market

Sketching from a parking lot

 This perfect little grocery at the top of my street has super produce and other necessary ingredients, which inspires healthy appetites and good cooking. Morning light makes the sign and the oranges glow, so I screwed up my courage and went out to make a sketch. Using the photo I was able to isolate those wonderful blacks on the iPad. The underpainting will be cool- a mixture of burnt umber and Prussian blue, which will dry fast.

Cropped and sketched from photo

Amazing how three dimensional it is already, just wiping out underpainting!

A nice sketch, but the perspective on the awning needed correction.