a sketchy life
urban sketch collection
I have been creating loose, sometimes, rough ink sketches all my life and would like to share some of my sessions with you. It’s fun and is a great way of passing the time. Some of these sketches are developed further into finished art pieces. You can do this in your house, or venture outside safely in your community in a safe socially distant way.
“Drawing is a form of personal communication, but that doesn’t mean that the artist shuts themselves in a bubble; it is communication with those close to us, with ourselves, but also with strangers. Drawing is a means of communicating with the extended family that we do not know, with the public, with the world.
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I tried to create a vintage DoodleArt ink drawing from the 1970s and paint it in digital watercolours.
In 1972, Glenn Anderson hit on the idea of coloring a black and white line drawing called "Ecology”. Packaging a poster and vibrant felt pens together in the highly recognizable tube. The Anderson family produced the DoodleArt kits in Vancouver, Canada.