As the Fall season progresses and colors change, the chances for exploration of chroma, value and hue when sketching are wonderful. This season I'm going to try to do a good deal of outdoor sketching, trying to capture some of the change. For a landscape painter (to which I've no claim), Fall is a great season.
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| "Harvest, 2017," watercolor, 8x10 |
In Iowa, the farmers are cutting and threshing corn. The machines they use are called combines. You see them sometimes in groups if a big field is being harvested. The cornstalks are a golden brown, with no traces of green. The corn is cut when the kernels are dry enough and the stalks dried out. This is an 8x10 watercolor and ink from a few weeks ago. The challenge for me was capturing the cornstalks and the motion of the machine, so I chose of eliminate as much detail as possible while blurring the movement of the stalks.
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| "Spire," watercolor, 8x10 |
It isn't just the colors and foliage that change in autumn. The light changes too as the sun begins to move more southerly. I sat in a coffee shop a few days ago and sketched a dilapidated church spire across the street while thinking about the light and shade. This is also 8x10 in the same sketchbook.
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| "Warm November," watercolor, 3.5x5 |
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The last image is also a watercolor, this time I did a quick sketch of the woods behind my studio. The weather had been unseasonably warm into November, and a single tree had turned red. This is about 3.4x5 in a pocket sketchbook.
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