Stand at the edge
Of the world
And let the grey green waters
Carry your soul
While your body hugs the rail
Safe, but empty.
I was at a bit of a quandary today, which image to post, and so that's why I posted the Carousel horse as well. I really wanted to post the Penarth Pier line and wash sketch, but I am fully aware that I sketched the pier in sepia ink from a different vantage point only a couple of months ago.
I try not to repeat myself too much. However, I had the opportunity to meet Gary, one of my internet sketching friends and a man whose line and wash work I really admire. Gary is currently visiting Wales, and waited to sketch the pier, so we agreed to meet. Unfortunately Gary couldn't make it for reasons beyond his control. Still, another member of the South Wales Urban Sketchers did come, and we sketched and also had a cuppa in the coffee shop inside the pavilion on the pier. While talking, Andra mentioned that she had met Gary last week, and passed on a couple of tips and observations about the way that Gary constructs a line and wash picture. I applied these and made the line and wash sketch above which, though I say it myself, I'm really pleased with. It's closer to how I'd like to use line and wash than pretty much anything else I've managed before.
The carousel is my response to the Sketching Every Day prompt today - State Fair. Okay, here in the UK we don't have State fairs - well, be fair, we don't have states. But I just took it to mean a traditional fair. I chose to go back to monochrome blue, partly because I like it - I guess I'm in the middle of my blue period - and partly because I used an ink sketch yesterday, and I don't want the group to figure out just what a one-trick pony I am just yet. I did think about trying to make a verse for the carousel, but to be honest anything I came up with as the germ of an idea was too close to my ferris wheel verse a couple of days ago. As it is, the challenge only requires me to come up with one verse each day, so I thought stuff it - it's my game so I can play by my rules.
