Every Day in May
Here are journal pages from May 3rd, 4th, and 5th. I think it might be easier if I at least scan them daily, because my evening hours are too short to do everything I want to do. I definitely won't take the time to also upload them to the Every Day in May Flik'r group.
May 2nd: There was no sketching or photography allowed at the Met's exhibit "Barcelona and Modernity." But I was taking a few notes in a really small notebook when I saw the Gaspar Homar's 1905 furniture design drawing. I still think like a quilter and I still collect images that I want to save for textile projects. The guards couldn't really see that I was sketching instead of writing. The top half of the image is Homar's and the bottom half is my addition. The colors are all mine.
May 3rd: I was permitted to sketch in the "Venice and the Islamic World" exhibit and among the many pieces of Venetian art that were inspired by their Islamic trade, I found this "ewer." The surface was marbelized, something I couldn't do on this journal page. However, I tried to capture the shape and colors.
May 5th: I was "stuck" on the last exercise in Lesson 3 of the Elsworth Watercolor Skills Workbook because I don't love landscapes. My city landscape has really tall buildings everywhere! I finally decided to work from one of my photos, taken during a wonderful trip to Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast in Oct 2005. The exercise was to paint a landscape using the layer-on-layer method - and here is Mount Vesuvius from Sorrento on a partially clear day.
Comments
I agree with you about landscapes, Shirley - I don't like doing them either. You've done a beautiful job on this one though, I love the soft colors you chose. Good job getting that design sketched without the guard catching you, too!
Posted by: Casey | May 6, 2007 10:21 AM
Shirley, I love the delicate colors you use, each time again. I gives a very distoinctive style. Nice work.
Posted by: Kunya | May 6, 2007 11:19 AM
These are wonderful, Shirley! I think my favorite is the ewer ... such a neat shape that you captured beautifully in watercolor!
Posted by: lin | May 6, 2007 11:43 AM
A very nice range of images. I like the variety. There is a real softness to your watercolors.
Posted by: Deborah Goldman | May 6, 2007 2:11 PM
No sketching - that's ludicrous! Still you managed some nice quick ones anyway - I particularly like the vessel, you've made it look very delicate and the colours are beautiful.
Posted by: Sarah | May 6, 2007 3:17 PM
I love the blue colors in your ewer - what a beautiful painting!
Posted by: Anna | May 6, 2007 4:23 PM
All are lovely, Shirley! The ewer is my favourite ~ :) Beautiful colours and shape.
Posted by: Serena | May 7, 2007 3:13 AM
Very atmospheric Shirley!
Posted by: Karen Winters | May 9, 2007 3:19 AM
Your Vesuvius sketch is wonderfully atmospheric.
No sketching? I've never heard of a museum immposing such a rule before. Seems a bit mean - particularly since you can view and sketch from many of the images online anyway!
Posted by: E-J | May 9, 2007 5:45 PM
Well, for somebody who doesn't like landscapes, you do them awfully well! ;-)
Posted by: Linda | May 10, 2007 10:22 PM