feeling flat, on L & 20th sketched this afternoon, watercolour, pen, pencil; a hot and sunny march afternoon, spent in midtown again, on my now-weekly sketching walkabout. Unfortunately, though I enjoyed the drawing element of this chaming building on L St and 20th, I fell flat on my arse when it came to rendering the paint. I did two, simultaneously, to get two effects, neither of which really worked, both were flatter than yolo county, and I'm still having trouble with the clear blue sky, the easiest thing in the world. I think the colours are wrong. The shading is wrong. I know they're only sketches, of course, and I like to try stuff out with my sketches, but all the same. I went home and played with the paints and the colour-wheel; much studying to do, pete. Much learning to be learnt. I think I need to approach everything from a completely different angle. There are lot of palm trees in sacramento.

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Red Queen / Website (15.3.07 09:59) It's stupid, I know, but can't help feeling that trees from the sketch on the right belong to the sketch on the left. Left is my favourite.

petescully / Website (15.3.07 15:31) i like neither, less and less each time i see them. Shame because I loved the building, and it doesn't show. I went out and bought new paints yesterday because i want to change everything, and they were much pricier than my last set, but for some reason did not have any black! So that's useless then.

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