I took advantage of a Black Friday sale and bought a course from Ian Fennelly - superstar urban sketcher - yes, there are such things. I love his shaggy style and random colours but it's too removed from my natural inclinations for me just to do it, so I thought a course was called for. I have done three of the four modules / drawings and it has absolutely been worthwhile - I've learned a lot and some very different ways of doing things.
The first one was a bridge. I don't love this, but I like that he has us working on A3, bigger is easier in some ways. And I was consciously trying to have the colour be more indicative than realistic, which is what gives his stuff a lot of its charm. This was a beginners course and it's scenes around Shrewsbury; I am envious of having picturesque things to go and draw. I am enjoying drawing the little beach houses of my beach town but there isn't much architectural variety and exactly zero interesting streetscapes.
A street with shops and stuff.
A half-timbered street with a church at the end and cobbles and other cool things that don't actually exist in Australia. I've really enjoyed this course, lots to think about.
What, these are paintings that you did????? I think they're fantastic!
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