Shortly after I retired, back in 2020, I attempted to take up watercolor painting. I quickly discovered that I'm not very good at it. Perhaps with more practice I might improve....? But my paintings soon evolved into colorized sketches, and in 2021 I came up with these. I've always been pretty good at drawing, and was the top male art student in my grade in Junior High, and then moved on to architectural drafting in High School.
I guess its only kind of natural that I returned to sketching, but this time around I did it with not only graphite, but also ink, and added in the watercolor. All of these pieces were based on black and white photographs that I had taken. After I practiced on these through 2021 I got busy building the guest cottage, and promptly dropped it. But, more recently, with the guest cottage completed, I returned to working on some of these, and started on a series of old hotels from the Beer Parlour Project. I will share scans of some of those in a future blog post.
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