Our local sketching group headed to the Glengarry Pioneer Museum last Saturday. I brought an older sketchbook with me in which I had left one blank double-page spread. I easily found a view to fill it. I took my time with the drawing and elected not to go over it with pen, but just to start painting. It took awhile, including a pause to consult Working with Colour by Shari Blaukopf for a good mix for darks. The Sap Green + Carbazole Violet combo was a revelation!
I had hoped to get two sketches done that morning, so, with only a bit of time left I elected to do a quick sketch, drawn directly with pen and then some watercolour.
Here are the results of a slow and of a fast approach.
Everyday Sketches 
Wonderful sketches Alison. I love the composition of your slow approach!
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Very beautiful Allison!
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Thank you!
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Thanks Shari! It was an inspired morning. Such a lovely group we have, great energy.
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Hey Alison, really pleased to come across your posting of everydaysketches. Didn’t know you were doing this, great body of work, very impressed!
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Ah, shucks! Thanks Daniel. It feels great to be drawing and painting again… after decades! (I got into sketching a few years back)
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I love your sketches. And I must try out green and violet for a dark.
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Thank you Margaret.
(My fraternal grandmother was Margaret Hall 🙂
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Oops, I meant “paternal”…
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