Some more practice with watercolors. A sweetmaker's shop, a nighttime shot of Badshahi Masjid, both in the city of Lahore and and a view of the mountains also in Pakistan.
Old Lahore Watercolor
Just getting back into watercolors. I painted the same image of the old part of Lahore in a few different ways. For the first one, I sketched out the scene in pencil then painted (building layer upon layer) and added some black marker at the end. For the rest I did no drawing, just straight painting. I felt like I had enough of a feel for it after doing the first one that I didn't need to draw it in with pencil. For the second image I just laid down some light washes and built up value a little, then went in with marker for details. For the third and fourth versions I just painted one cool and warm and the other monochromatic. I want to work on landscapes and city scenes for a bit...take a breather from drawing my poor co-workers...
BBC in stages
Sick at home watchin' tv...
Monday Faces
Sick...drawings
Ballet, LAX and Acrobats
Shake for the Quake
Went to a concert up in San Francisco in support of the earthquake relief effort in Pakistan and India. It was organized by Project Ahimsa. Did some quick sketches to try and capture some of what I saw..and then I got busy with joining in the fun!
Oh, how I flatter people at work...
More Co-workers
More Coworkers and the news
Here are some more unsusupecting coworkers and a sketch based off a picture of protestors I saw on the BBC News website.
Unsuspecting Coworkers
Dancing in the Margins
Went to a dance performance called "Dancing in the Margins" and did these sketches. Lots of fun to try and catch people in motion. I didn't actually do any sketches of my two favorite performances, by Postnatyam Collective and Ana Maria Alvarez. They were so fast paced that I had to choose between watching or drawing...so I watched.
Random Faces 2
Random Faces
Peshawar Dancers
Assorted Faces
Faces
Pakistani Kids
Kids watching some dancers from Peshawar at Bulleh Shah's Urs in Kasur Pakistan.
Pakistani Faces
Decided to work on some faces. Still kinda quick, but I actually bothered to use a pencil to lay things out more first...suppose that could help my drawing a bit... So, just playing with layering color with the markers and trying to draw different heads. These are all people I met on my trip to Pakistan last summer.