Sketching in Cambridge (Galt)

Joined Alan today to sketch old buildings in Cambridge (Galt). Met up at the Melville Cafe at 9:30 and got some hot drinks because it was COLD. But in spite of the cold we persevered and stood in the entrance ways of stores to get out of the wind and sketched for 4 hours.

I’m trying to loosen up my drawing and to be quicker like Alan, but I still get bogged down with detail.

I was really pleased with the one sketch I did with blue ink of the old town hall. Directly went to ink…no pre drawing with pencil and it worked…until I added water. I forgot the ink was water soluble. Interesting results.

My attempt at sketching directly with pen in a loose style quickly.

My attempt at sketching directly with pen in a loose style quickly.

My sketch of the Fire Hall Museum in Galt

My sketch of the Fire Hall Museum in Galt

Watercoloured facade in Galt

Watercoloured facade in Galt

This was aacross from Melville Cafe in Cambridge ( Galt)

This was aacross from Melville Cafe in Cambridge ( Galt)

Watercoloured Fire Hall Museum in Galt

Watercoloured Fire Hall Museum in Galt

This is what happens when you forget that the ink is water soluble and you spritz a little water on the paper to add colour, Oops!

This is what happens when you forget that the ink is water soluble and you spritz a little water on the paper to add colour, Oops!

Sketch of facade in Galt

Sketch of facade in Galt

Postcard Exchange

Just received my postcard exchange from Malaysia today.

Have been looking forward to receiving it since I sent mine in mid January.

Beautiful!!

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Chair and end table

A little pen and ink/watercolour of our chair in the livingroom.

Timeless Materials Co., 2

Just as I was leaving the sketching venue today, I did a quick sketch of the old farmhouse at Timeless Materials Co. Using tinted paper and coloured pencils and a little watercolour…. oh yeah, and my new white pen.

Timeless Materials Co.,

Another outing with USkWR today at Timeless Materials Co., in Waterloo. This time we sketched recycled artifacts. This is a watercolour I did of old window panes. Great subject matter, don’t you think?

Elora Inn

This is a tiny pencil/watercolour sketch I did in my moleskin sketch book many years ago of the Elora Inn in better times. Unfortunately, now it’s closed and fenced in.

Santorini

This is a watercolour I did from our balcony in March 2009 in Santorini. We spent nine weeks in Greece and Italy. Great memories!

Yacht Demo watercolour

This is the demonstration painting I did at the watercolour workshop on Saturday. I actually had to complete it at home as we ran out of time. I’m quite happy with it, but I went a little heavy on the ropes and the colours went a little flat but I learned a lot, thanks to our instructor, Hasib who made it look so easy…yah, right.

Tripod easel

For an upcoming all day watercolour course, I made this easel.

I purchased the easel and carrying case on kijiji for $5.00 and scrounged around in my tool box and MacGyvered this together. I purchased two plastic containers from Dollarama to hold water and drilled holes to hold brushes.

I still want to design a platform for the canvas that is smaller and more portable to take on sketching outings but for now this will have to do….I’ll report back how it performed after the watercolour course in January.

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Canadian Design Archives, Cambridge

Our last sketching outing of 2016 was at the Canadian Design Archives, Cambridge Galt, Ontario.

This is my sketch for one of the postcards we will be exchanging from our group with USk Kuching, Malaysia.

It’s of a radio from 1946 produced in Montreal, Que.