Updated on 20 March 2017 (Harvard referencing).
7 November 2016. Time to update on my everyday inkpen sketches. I keep thinking that I find too little opportunity to use my sketchbook, but looking at this series maybe it is not as bad as it feels.
First some riverside impressions, trying very quickly (30 seconds per person at most) to express posture and mood of the people I happened to see there (Fig. 1):

The following man, sitting on one of the benches, was incredibly difficult to catch. He was fidgety to a high degree, kept talking to a woman sitting next to him and looking around all the time, so despite my sunglasses I never had more than one tenth of a second before he spotted me looking at him. I held out, nevertheless (Fig. 2):

Next some ladies watching their respective kids play with the gravel (Fig. 3):

Then some more people “on the move” along the river, including a 20 minute sketch from my series recording “mass movement”, this time catching mostly cyclists (Fig. 4-5):


Next a series of very quick portrait sketches, which I made in preparation for an exciting evening in one of Salzburg’s art museums (“Rupertinum”), where I spent 6 hours speed portraying the visitors of the “Long Night of Museums” in October. The preparatory sketches were made while watching TV shows/discussions on the internet (Fig. 6-11):
- A boy stting for an artist who explained speed portraiture to an audience of future artists:

2. One of the Austrian TV news presenters (Tarek Leitner):

3. The mayor of Salzburg (Heinz Schaden):

4. Another TV news presenter (Armin Wolf):

5. The leader of the green party in Salzburg (Astrid Rössler):

6. Austria’s federal chancellor (Christian Kern):

Then something difficult, catching people visiting the “Rupertikirtag” fun fair in the city of Salzburg, amidst a great crowd, some of them definitely quite drunk and very suspicious of my actions (Fig. 12-13):


And finally, moving on to Part 4 of the course, some views on, through and out of objects and buildings (Fig. 14-18).
First, looking through the gap between the planks of a bench on the gravel, leaves, cigarette ends, bits of plastic and metal, which happen to accumulate under well-used public seats:

Then a very quick impression of an old mill (“Rauchmühle”), which at the moment is in the process of being torn down to make way for affordable flats. The rubble in the foreground are the remains of a house, which used to stand attached to the tall building on the right. The view was quite exciting and I keep it at the back of my mind for Part 4.

Next two views of the flats typical for the built-up area around my son’s school:


And last a quick evening twilight impression of our tiny front garden/vegetable plot as seen through the dining room window:

I am extremely glad how my sketching abilities have become reliable over the years, most importantly those regarding portraiture. Only on rare occasions now I fail to catch a true likeness of a person and I notice how I have developed a keen sense of the most descriptive characteristics of a person’s face and posture. Hopefully this is here to stay :o).
thank you for sharing. I with I could keep up with my daily sketch too. Anyway will start again soon-ish.
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Yes, it is difficult. But I always bring one of my sketchbooks and try to make the best of my time, mostly while waiting for things I cannot change – and also the less time I have, the better the results tend to be :o).
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I really enjoy looking at your sketches they are so lively.
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Hi Alison, thanks – I very much enjoy making them!
By the way, I never managed to register on your painting blog, only yesterday I found the “follow” button, nearly out of sight right at the bottom of my screen. It kept disappearing every time I moved closer with the cursor, but I caught it in the end ;o). Looking forward to following your work again!
Andrea
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ha ha…..I’m am clearly still not quite used to this blogging 🙂
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Thank you for sharing these. I love your use of hatching to give them more life. Janet.
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