Shapes

I always seem to do much better with shapes as a drawing technique than any other method. A couple years ago I was shocked how nicely the sketch of the ruins turned out. So this year I decided to try the same technique on an old travel photo I took of Stonehenge back in 2000.

Loving how the blooms in the watercolor help add to the atmospheric nature of this sketch.

The paint is Daniel Smith Joseph Z’s Warm Grey. I had been testing grays a few days ago, and this paint was still in my palette, so I used it. I’m becoming obsessed with monochrome sketches, so I may be exploring that more in the future. What might this sketch look like in the toned Kuretake Gansai Tambi Sumi or Graphite or Blackish paints that I was swatching this weekend, for example?