november art log

The monthly art server themes are charcoal and insects and I’m opting out of both. (The monthly medium poll is so funny: 16 charcoal, 13 acrylic, 11 gouache, 1 oil. Oil in ruins. That’s not even a real vote for oil, it’s Stroop posting the placeholder emoji.) Liz Steel’s theme is “temperature: warm and cool” which is very hype.

• Nov 1 [marker, watercolor]: Urban sketching. A row of townhomes with the condo grounds wall in the foreground. Attempting to capture the dreary day with a warm palette (dusty rose, dusty plum, brown, yellow ochre, gray sky).
• Nov 2 [pen, watercolor, crayon]: Urban sketching. A row of townhomes behind an evergreen (silhouetted in white) and a deciduous tree (silhouetted in black). Cool palette.
• Nov 3 [pen, colored pencil, crayon]: Unfinished urban sketch that turned into a general scene. Cars, a brick house, a peach tree, butterflies, a rocket, and a T-Rex with spikes.
• Nov 4 [pen, marker, crayon]: Food journal (spread). Fruits and Chinese fries for breakfast, green onion pancakes for lunch, Peking Garden leftovers + veg + rice for dinner.
• Nov 5 [pen, marker, crayon]: BB’s food journal (spread). Fruits and a red bean bao for breakfast, "oven lunch," fish tofu + bread + tung hoon for dinner, tiramisu for dessert.
• Nov 6 [crayon]: Quick fanart of Liz’s coffee spot. A car parked in front of a tree, various bushes, a house in the background.
• Nov 7 [pen, watercolor, watercolor crayon]: Urban sketching. Cars in the parking lot. Heavy use of payne’s gray + jade neocolor, and a diagonal sky block.
• Nov 7 [crayon, marker, watercolor crayon]: Sketch-along with Liz’s Feb 2025 livestream demo. Two pictures of a church, one purely in crayon, one with marker “underpainting” and crayon + neocolor layered on top.
• Nov 8 [pen, marker, watercolor crayon]: Urban sketching. A truck at the construction site.
• Nov 9 [crayon, watercolor crayon, BPW, collage]: A rocket. Body of the rocket is the top of a Kleenex box.
• Nov 10 [pen]: Urban sketching. People in waiting rooms (4) and at Panera (13); foreshortened views of a light switch and a cabinet.

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