Part 3, Drawing outdoors. Starting with a sketchbook walk ...

Starting this part of the course was difficult as the weather was so bad.  Snow and ice week after week and definitely very cold that standing still outside for more than 10 minutes in order to draw meant very frozen fingers!  But I persevered in drawing from real life rather than photos.

Here are four quick sketches I did for this exercise.  The first two are views of a garden.

                                          

Forgot my viewfinder.  Used graphite.  2pm on a cold day; didn't get much sense of light and dark really and found it hard to get straight lines right.




 Very cold so done quick as possible.  More atmosphere than first attempt but lots of rocks and lines going in different directions and it looks like I didn’t get them very straight.



I prefer the following two sketches which are views from the local church.  I think I have achieved a sense of depth and distance.  I think the horses in the foreground help to achieve that.