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Sketchy Brad | 90 Posts
Time traveler and all around sketchy guy. Will draw for good vibes. Sketching daily, posting when it turns out! Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.
Time traveler and all around sketchy guy. Will draw for good vibes. Sketching daily, posting when it turns out! Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.
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Sketching | ↻ 21 days
Sketching | ↻ 21 days
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Urban sketching is about drawing living places. Filling them with people is often an afterthought, but it doesn’t take a complex skill to add life to a world.
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Watercolour | ↻ 6 months
Watercolour | ↻ 6 months
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#spring has sprung and I was trying to capture the pre-greening vibe of the woods
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Watercolour | ↻ 6 months
Watercolour | ↻ 6 months
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I did some nice little mini painting projects this week to work on techniques.
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Watercolour | ↻ 8 months
Watercolour | ↻ 8 months
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A simple watercolour testing out tones and colours and sitting on the floor as a workspace.
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Watercolor | ↻ 10 months
Watercolor | ↻ 10 months
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I haven’t had much inspiration for painting this season but when it strikes I can do a little something with it… [read more...]
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Kyoto | ↻ 11 months
Kyoto | ↻ 11 months
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We dropped off our bags at the hotel and went for a walk to a nearby temple. The monks were chanting and I was sketching. #japan [read more...]
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Ink | ↻ 1 year
Ink | ↻ 1 year
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Day 10 of my #suburbansketching challenge and i sat in the utility corridor and drew electric lines.
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T-Towne | ↻ 1 year
T-Towne | ↻ 1 year
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I didn’t promise daily #suburbansketching updates, but I will post some more of my favorite pics. I made this #sketch over by the little stormwater lake near our house a couple days ago, and I’m more proud of it than I rightly deserve, but only because this particular view is something that I’ve attempted to sketch, paint and capture in its lovely suburban glory multiple times and never felt particularly successful about. This one leans into the simple #urbansketch style with few fine details, but somehow it works… and even feels a bit overworked because of the handful of #005 linework I added. [read more...]
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Urban Sketches | ↻ 1 year
Urban Sketches | ↻ 1 year
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I went for a stroll #downtown via the #university with the goal of making some art. Success! Three new sketches.
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The Leg | ↻ 1 year
The Leg | ↻ 1 year
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I made a bunch of art today but this was my favourite. #urbansketch [read more...]
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Urban Sketch | ↻ 1 year
Urban Sketch | ↻ 1 year
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Oh another #urbansketch from another Starbucks window, makes for day two of my #dailyart challenge. The bank and parking lot are not especially exciting I admit, but that’s #suburbansketching for you, huh?
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Ink Sketch | ↻ 1 year
Ink Sketch | ↻ 1 year
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My personal October challenge is to do a daily #urbansketch … which means finding a nice urban scene and sketching with the old pen and ink. Of course, i’m gonna try and post all of them, good or bad. Good thing I don’t have comments on this site, huh?
Today’s sketch was brought to you by being blocked in at the Starbucks parking lot by a delivery truck and settling in to do a little view of the pizza restaurant out the window. Urban sketching, more like #suburbansketching
Today’s sketch was brought to you by being blocked in at the Starbucks parking lot by a delivery truck and settling in to do a little view of the pizza restaurant out the window. Urban sketching, more like #suburbansketching
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Watercolor | ↻ 1 year
Watercolor | ↻ 1 year
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#autumn colours by the suburban pond on a windy friday [read more...]
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Winter Watercolor | ↻ 1¾ years
Winter Watercolor | ↻ 1¾ years
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If this looks familiar it’s either because you live in Canada on this -18C day, or because it’s the same painting I thought I finished yesterday and posted on Instagram… but with some #snow added into the scene. #watercolour
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Watercolour | ↻ 1¾ years
Watercolour | ↻ 1¾ years
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dabbling in a simple #monochromatic #watercolour this morning inspired by the cold temperatures outside!
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Watercolour and Gouache | ↻ 1¾ years
Watercolour and Gouache | ↻ 1¾ years
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I cannot quite put my finger on it, but something about that job I just quit was blocking me artistically. Hell, I didn’t even notice it happening until the other day, while out walking the dog, the kid mentioned that I hadn’t been painting much lately, and I realized—no, actually I have painted nothing at all, not one thing, since I started working part time. It’s as if the two things occupied the same processing register in my brain and could not exist simultaneously.
Having quit the job and finished work yesterday, and having noticed the pattern, I decided to spend an hour in the basement with my paints this afternoon. The result is a bit derivative of my work from last winter, but since it is the first thing I have painted in four months I will give myself a break on that.
Having quit the job and finished work yesterday, and having noticed the pattern, I decided to spend an hour in the basement with my paints this afternoon. The result is a bit derivative of my work from last winter, but since it is the first thing I have painted in four months I will give myself a break on that.
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Ribbon Creek | ↻ 2¼ years
Ribbon Creek | ↻ 2¼ years
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I sat atop a waterfall and painted this plein air #watercolour with water from the creek.
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Ribbon Falls | ↻ 2¼ years
Ribbon Falls | ↻ 2¼ years
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A plein air #watercolour painted atop a mountain. #waterfall
Now that I’m back home and actually have decent paints… a proper brush … few mosquitoes buzzing in my face.. and less rush, I want to try this screen again.
Now that I’m back home and actually have decent paints… a proper brush … few mosquitoes buzzing in my face.. and less rush, I want to try this screen again.
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Urban Sketching | ↻ 2¼ years
Urban Sketching | ↻ 2¼ years
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A theme park might literally be among the worst places in the world to try urban sketching.
There is nowhere to get more than five minutes of peace to draw. So I embraced that: I went with the intention of seeing what I could accomplish in the least amount of time possible. I adopted a loose af sketching style and a sloppy/abstract watercolour style and spent literally no more than 5 minutes sketching— standing in a queue, waiting outside a bathroom for my fam, after lunch—and then painting with super-limited time and supplies back at the hotel.
The result was 28 sketches over the week (i filled a sketch book!) and about 6 hours total invested in drawing and painting. They are not neat nor tidy. They are not photo perfect by any stretch. They are vibes. Impressions. And the whole collection, despite a few flops and a leaky sketchbook seam, is an awesome souvenir.
There is nowhere to get more than five minutes of peace to draw. So I embraced that: I went with the intention of seeing what I could accomplish in the least amount of time possible. I adopted a loose af sketching style and a sloppy/abstract watercolour style and spent literally no more than 5 minutes sketching— standing in a queue, waiting outside a bathroom for my fam, after lunch—and then painting with super-limited time and supplies back at the hotel.
The result was 28 sketches over the week (i filled a sketch book!) and about 6 hours total invested in drawing and painting. They are not neat nor tidy. They are not photo perfect by any stretch. They are vibes. Impressions. And the whole collection, despite a few flops and a leaky sketchbook seam, is an awesome souvenir.
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Watercolour Class 7 | ↻ 2¼ years
Watercolour Class 7 | ↻ 2¼ years
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For our penultimate #watercolour #flower class we did this little red rose. Given that a) this week is our last class and b) I usually only do my homework to show off in the next class, this might have been my last at home assignment painting for a while. That said, I’ve been snapping pics of flowers for a couple weeks now and I bought a pass to the local botanic garden so hopefully it will be a summer of painting plein aire in the park.
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Watercolour | ↻ 2¼ years
Watercolour | ↻ 2¼ years
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Watercolour Class 7 | ↻ 2¼ years
Watercolour Class 7 | ↻ 2¼ years
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A practice rose by any other name? #watercolour class number 7 means that I really only have one more homework assignment, huh? [read more...]
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Watercolor Revisited | ↻ 2¼ years
Watercolor Revisited | ↻ 2¼ years
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About six hours later I decided this #dandelion #watercolour was a little lacking in depth, so I spent another hour or so adding lots of shading, some subtle some not, and now I think it has a lot more oomph. What say you? [read more...]