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Boarders and Skiers at the Park City Mountain Resort
watercolour and crayon
©2015 Charlene Brown
Here’s another entry in the September Virtual Paintout. For a change, I
decided to use a view with lots of people… and I soon discovered there
was hardly anyone out standing around on the days the Google camera Streetviewed Utah! I finally found a little crowd at the base of one of the
lifts at the Park City Mountain Resort just outside Salt Lake City. Here is the link to it
I’ve
used some of the tips on a 2008 post on the highly-regarded art blog Making a Mark
- look for connections between
people in terms of relationships and body language
- identify the big shape that is
the group of people. If you can't see an edge then don't draw it.
- make the connections between
different zones more obvious. Overlap figures and objects to demonstrate
who is in the foreground, the middle ground and background.
- Avoid drawing faces and feet. (If you draw a likeness, then you should really obtain a model release.) Squint when you look at faces and then only draw what you can see - which will be values. You'll be surprised at how little detail there is. (I should mention that with Google Streetview, likenesses are not a concern – all faces are pretty consistently blurred out.) Feet are often drawn bigger than they actually are. Try to make them smaller then you want to (again not a concern here, as everyone has boots on.)
