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Pen & Ink Sketch Awenda Provincial Park. July 25,2024 |
Hopefully, sometime in the next few days we'll be heading up to Algonquin Provincial Park to do a bit of sketching. Now, important to realize that a sketch is simply that, a few lines, a bit of colour, and not a detailed painting. In fact a sketch, is a sketch, is a sketch, a thought, and idea, quickly expressed and kept as a possible source of information to assist with something more detailed for a future work of art. The sketch, however is not to be thought as just a few lines and a splotch of colour to be tossed away, but a true piece of art, for the real art is in its spontaneity and contains your reaction to the environment. Should by chance you're not pleased with your sketch, believe that you've failed in your attempt to capture the moment, don't for the moment think to toss it, no, save it, as you will be amazed to find years from now that the memory of that moment has been saved, and the whisper of the pines, the call of a loon, still live within your scribblings.
I have a friend of sorts, a fellow Scottish artist, Leo du Feu, whom I've never met, but with whom I've corresponded and follow on his blog. He has published several videos about sketching worth watching...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ouuVLoWqc&list=PLkQd5bEV59uJYkIXIDSq9QHz_l5cSm2RT&index=3
As I mentioned, hopefully, we'll make it up to Algonquin allowing me to make a few sketches to share with you in the coming weeks. So, those of you who are interested, and who have not stumbled into my site in search of someone else's art, stay tuned.
