More media
Recently I have been trying some new techniques learned from the beautiful book which Matthew gave me: The Art of Urban Sketching.
With the weather we have been having, most are taken from good quality photos in books, or from shots we took when we were in Europe put up on the TV screen.
Here is a view of Auckland Harbour in mechanical pencil:
One fine day I walked around the block to sketch the shop on a corner near us, using felt pens:
One of the new media I have used is acrylics. Here is La Place du Tertre in Montmartre:
And combining acrylics, watercolour and pencil, a shot of a school on the Albaycin hill in Granada, shot from the Alhambra windows on the opposite side of the valley:
PS Have a look at my contribution to the Carersair blog: http://www.carersair.net.nz/what-i-learned
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