For my final dash and splash of the day, I headed out to Stockbury Church…
The Harrow, Stockbury
Sunday is always a good day for a dash and splash and today I’ve trekked out to my neighbouring village of Stockbury to do three drawings before dashing back home and so,asking in random colours chosen by the computer. The first subject I chose was The Harrow, the village’s community-owned pub.
I started with this drawing:
The drawing was quite rushed. That’s not always a bad thing, although the roof tiles don’t look as good as some that I’ve done before. The bigger problem was the shadow in front of the pub. I tried adding it with the brush pen in my set but the blackness was too inconsistent. I’m going to stick to small black shapes in future. They look better and the brush pen will last longer before running out. I ended up going all over the shadow with a black marker.
After dashing home, I was presented with these three colours:
I didn’t think it looked like too bad a choice. A yellow, a blue and a reddy brown that would suit the brickwork. And maybe the brown could give me a dark neutral when mixed with the blue, but it just didn’t work. I couldn’t get that dark neutral that I was looking for, so there are just muddy browns where I wanted dark colours.
This one was a flop and won’t be going in the shop window. I’m just as much to blame as the iPad.
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