USK:MTL : Sketching Atwater Market
We had perfect lazy Sunday weather for today’s USK:MTL monthly sketching meetup. I was doing more talking than drawing today so we have a little bit of everything going on in the sketchbook. Thanks to everyone who showed up. It was fun meeting a lot of new people today.
A view of the canal – in an unusual (for me) vertical composition, thanks to a suggestion from my friend Shari. We were sitting side by side. She sketched the view 90 degrees to mine.
Here’s what we were really looking at. I was kind of happy with my redesign of what was there. Less is almost always more in a quick sketch.
A quick sketcher portrait. I don’t know this person, so if you’re the lady in the red coat who left early, this is you concentrating on your sketch :)
And, after lunch the Phil So Good quartet set up (only three of them for whatever reason?) and we all hung out and sketched them while they played for us.
Citizen Sketcher 
Love them – specially the way the water looks and the way you’ve done the guitarist’s face.
Nice sketches. My on-site sketches are still quite weak. I do better in the studio.
I myself have to learn how to paint indoors! It has to be better right :) but it doesn’t seem to click for me somehow. That is a project I hope to dig into next year.
Beautiful, and thankyou for including the photo…it’s great for showing how to simplify. I like the way you left the embankment white but also showed, by direction of line and paint, that the water is below that white strip.
I have signed up for both yours and Shari’s Craftsy classes; the only Craftsy ones for me so far. Yours is the sketching movement. I love both the classes, but I haven’t shown up yet as only toddling along enjoying it all very slowly. I have been inspired to do tonal thumbnails, and for yours Marc, I am going along to a draught-horse day at a local historic farm, where I will get some big moving horse shapes into my sketchbook. I like the way you show how you use the pencil to get those loose shapes. Thankyou. Sandi