From my sketchbook

Here are few recent sketches I did on location!

Grey scale sketches and final paintings (Watercolor)

To improve my understanding of values, I am practicing grey scale sketches in 3 shades of grey. These make a big difference in the final painting as one knows exactly where to apply dark and light colours. I feel bad that I did not find this 3 years back! Anyway better late than never. Here are couple of examples.

Some grey scale sketches (copic markers)

As I have mentioned before I have started outdoor painting since January. Currently I am trying grey scale sketches to get a feel of the "value". This exercise will help me in both composition as well as colour selection and simplification. Here are few such grey scale sketches.

Berliner Dome

I want to paint a fairly difficult structure to gain some confidence. Berliner Dome looked like a great choice and this is what I am currently working on. Here is a glimpse of some practice pieces. The final one will take some time since I require peaceful 6-7 hours to complete it properly and time is at a premium nowadays given my schedule. The base pencil drawing itself takes pretty long time.

Parking on a slope.

Viewed from the first floor.

Tea Stall

Chahachi Gadi - Outside a temple!

Bhajiwali - Vegetable vendor

Finally started sketching outdoors. This was made in Tulshibagwale Colony. I am trying something new nowadays. The first sketch is made with a normal B or 2B pencil and then I am just applying few strokes with colour pencils on top of the original sketch. The tones are shown with a normal black pencil only.