Though this is the last page of my current sketchbook, it is not the last page to be worked on. The previous page, an evening landscape, was started and is not yet finished. But today I just felt like painting something from scratch so I did this from a photo taken during a clinic visit on Monday. The pumpkins had a velvet surface.
This is sort of the direction I’d like my sketching to go: directly painting with a combination of gouache and watercolor with touches of colored pencil or Neocolor II crayons . . . mabe even a bit of ink, who knows? But working looser without so much niggling the details. Letting go of perfectionistic tendencies.
There are two other sketched pages in this book waiting for me to continue a Marty Burnham workshop I began in October. The first of those turned out to be a disaster and I haven’t taken time to get back to the course as yet. I do plan to finish the 2nd and 3rd sketches, but will probably not post those since they are not my own original work. Even the one that turned out badly has taught me a lot.
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