Wakefield #2 Upper York Street, Sunday 11/10/15 10:30 to 12:00a.m Weather sunny and moderately warm. Graphite on cartridge paper 11 1/2" x 16 1/2". This location was determined by Ian. When I arrived here, the views from the location, were not very inspiring, being predominately car parks. However I found an acceptable view point from a space in the the car park adjacent to street. Armed with a mug of hot coffee a range of pencils and cartridge paper pad, I set about recording the what was in front of me. As it was sunday morning there were not a lot of people about, so the drawing looks a bit lifeless. One of the challenges to "drawing from life" arose while drawing the car in the foreground. A man came out of the house along side, got in the car and drove it away, hence the unfinished appearance.Also drawing from inside a car has its difficulties as it restricts the movement of ones arms. This made keeping the accuracy of the perspective lines difficult and as you can see some of the roof lines in particular are a bit off.
However I enjoyed the challenge producing the drawing and feel it faithfully records time and place which is the Urban Sketching philosophy. I may work on it further however to correct some of the perspective errors and perhaps add a bit of colour.
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6th October 2015 My friends threw darts at the map in a variety of ways (blindfolded, left handed, pacing the map on the floor and throwing the dart in the air) so the locations are randomly selected and produced a good variety of views. and so now I shall set off, pencil and paper in hand, to record the urban landscape of Wakefield.
This is "Urban Sketch #1" of Wakefield. The location was determined by my wife Janice throwing a dart at a Map of Wakefield (see below). Further random locations will determined by friends throwing darts at the map. I hope this creates views of Wakefield which represent it's true nature. So here is the first:- This is the view from a small square off Chancery Lane. The plaque on the right of the seated figure is to Nelson Mandella. I must find out more about why and when this square was created.
The drawing was made on the 1st Oct 2015. at around 2:15 p.m. A nice sunny afternoon, with very few people about. It was drawn with pencil, fibre pen and watercolour. |
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