Today was a day for a very messy sketch because I was in a very messy mood.
#sketch #sketchbook #sketching
Today was a day for a very messy sketch because I was in a very messy mood.
#sketch #sketchbook #sketching
Apple blossoms are among my favorite things to sketch every year.
Sketching some hedgehogs...
Guess which one was not drawn by me but by my daughter?
Today’s studio: Burleigh Murray State Park, the Mills Dairy Barn, the only known bank barn (built into the hillside) in California. 1889. The family donated the property to the state in 1979 and it remains largely unimproved except for the ranch road, supports for the barn, and a few picnic tables. Did a quick little (2.5 x 3.5 in) #watercolor.
While I was there I was surrounded by birdsong. Lots of California quail. Black-headed grosbeak. Downy woodpecker. Steller’s jay. Northern flicker. Yellow-rumped warbler. Pacific wren. And more more more. I know who because of the Merlin app.
It was a lovely afternoon. I love riding to here.
Today's café sketch and yesterday's central railway station sketch.
#sketch #sketchbook #sketching
I'm offering my online botanical sketching course with feedback again this year, the starting date is 28 April. More info here:
https://juliabausenhardt.com/dates-for-upcoming-feedback-round-of-botanical-sketching/
More urban sketchers goodness! After a great day of sketching, I went out to dinner with a lovely person and just kept sketching. The tower of the Liebfrauenkirche was really fascinating and so bright glowing in the evening sun.
Very simple small setup, which I enjoyed a lot!
Party sketches from life.
#drawing #sketching #sketchbook #MastoArt
Waves perspective.
"Rest area" is the superpower of painters and comic book artists.
Moebius' style for example was all about pushing the rest area to the extreme. This lets the viewer's eye finish the picture, instead of tediously rendering details and having something that looks too busy.
Spent the morning with my amazing friend Diána Laurent. We sat in a café, talked, laughed, plotted a short comic, and she did character sketches for the MCs I came up with. It was inspiring and wonderful. Seeing an artist bring characters to life will always feel like absolute magic to me. ️
(AI can suck it. It will never replicate this.)