I’ve had a busy day dashing and splashing around the village. I just woke I…
Hartlip Church Porch
Next I moved position to get a view of the porch at the front of the church. I went against the advice of Alex Hillkurtz and picked a viewing angle where I could sit comfortably on a bench rather than looking for other angles that could be better.
One thing I did differently with the drawing of this one was that I didn’t start with a pencil outline: I went straight to the pens. There’s definitely something fresh about the way this one looks but I don’t think there’s a right way and a wrong way. I went to town a bit on the roof tiles, settling into a repetitive scribbly indication of their presence, again showing much more detail than I normally would. I also used the brush pen a bit more than before to mark in the darkest shapes.
For colours, the iPad chose these:
This didn’t feel like too bad a selection when I first saw it. The brown and grey are quite grumpy, earthy colours and the yellow is bright enough to shine through ahead of the grumps. But I tried a bit too hard with the yellow on the sunnier bits of the building, resulting in a very green painting. I really could have done with a proper red in this one to get that roof to a better colour. And I’m wondering whether I should have just ignored most of the lines on the page and thrown the paint on fairly randomly.
I didn’t think this was as good as today’s first painting but it proved to be popular on Facebook and was quickly sold to a Hartlip resident. All proceeds going to the church.
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