At the end of a long day, I felt like the more I crossed off my "to-do list," the more I added. This usually puts me in a procrastination mode, out of which I get by asking myself, "What if you did not have to do anything at all - zero obligations - what would you do?" And the answer often prompts me to grab my sketching bag and head out. Which is what I did - because a couple of days before, I saw that this apricot orchard was about to bloom!
When I got to this sketching location I had little time and felt rather tired and wound up at the same time. My rules for such a situation are:
1) start drawing as soon as possible
2) get the first sketch out of my system as quickly as possible with a minimum amount of materials.
So I planted my folding stool within 10 feet of the boundary of the orchard. And I started the warm-yellow line for the roofs behind the trees, because the yellow marker was the first thing I blindly pulled out of my sketch bag. After the yellow, I pulled out the black chisel pen and drew the hero of this sketch: an apricot tree. After that I added details with the purple pencil. That is how the sketch below came to be. And then I was able to get my gouache pleinair box out and paint the view a little slower - that is the first sketch in this post.
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