Sketchbook Pages
Three more journal pages to upload for this week:
On Saturday my husband and I took a wonderful long walk from Washington Square, through the West Village to Hudson River Park and then back again. We stopped for a lovely, early dinner at Po's Restaurant on Cornelia Street. The weather was so wonderful and the inspiration came from my new favorite NYC blog - Walking Off The Big Apple. I could see this table and bouquet of flowers from my seat - just enough to sketch and paint it during dinner.
Monday we visited the Museum of Modern Art with friends and at the end of the afternoon I sat in the room with the new Monet Water Lily paintings and sketched a few of the people as they stopped in front of the paintings. I had just enough time to make a quick sketch, so I decided to leave them unpainted and put the paint colors from some of Monet's paintings as the background.
I stopped at Bryant Park yesterday to draw/paint the carousel horse that our grandson Callum rode on several weeks ago. I had time before the New York Public Library opened and the carousel was not yet open for business. Perfect timing!
Comments
What a good idea to leave the people unpainted and paint the background! Your painting of the carousel horse is really nice. It sounds like you had a great day. I live in Hooterville, and there are no museums anywhere near us. When I read postings by people who live in New York, I must confess, I feel a bit of envy for a second. nancy
Posted by: nancy t. | September 23, 2009 8:44 PM
Really like the carousel horse :) because I think the placing of colors here is amazing. You've always got the soft tones on your drawings which are very friendly :)
Posted by: Alex Tan | September 24, 2009 2:59 AM
I love what you did in your journal. All the pictures have imagination and style. What a luxury to be able to have those kind of days to draw. Good times and art.
Posted by: Ramona Davidson | September 24, 2009 3:55 PM
Nancy, my thoughts exactly - a great idea to paint the painting! It doesn't move. very smart. And I also thought the carousel was really well done. Statues (and carousel horeses) have a chacracter of their own which is hard to capture.
Posted by: Alissa | September 24, 2009 6:09 PM
Your drawings are great. The carousel pony is so sweet. You did a great job of keeping him soft and dainty. I like how you painted around your people too.
Posted by: Timaree (freebird) | September 24, 2009 11:43 PM