Sketching While Waiting

Last couple of weeks I had a bunch of scheduled and unscheduled appointments. So here is a fresh installment of little notes and sketches done while waiting. Famous California rains made it into many of these, even washing one of my watercolor sketches off completely (see below). There is an update on nonagenarian (some routine tests and eye shots), fixing the tire and then fixing it again, waiting with the rain and waiting for the rain. All of these are done on either scrap paper/envelopes or my pocket Strathmore drawing pad with uniball vision rollerball pen (gray body) which works even when the paper is soaked! 

This is how the "it is about to rain" looked like a few days ago.

A heavy wind with some crazy gusts brought some amazingly bright leaves between the rains. I painted this quickly as some leaves flew away, and some got duller with more rain. I used some gouache as I would use watercolors to paint this.

Drawing while walking, drawing in the rain

I had a wonderful time hiking through a forest on a Sunday morning recently. It was rainy and foggy, some colors were saturated and others were muted. A great company of friends meant a conversation accompanied by raindrops on my hood. I was a little too wet and cold to draw first but then got out my little pocket drawing pad and used a waterproof uniball to make some quick sketches-while-walking: a twisty madrone, fallen three meant I drew people climbing over it, a turn in the road. The sketches are hard to recognize by others but they are my little memory about a day well spent!

How I didn't paint the first winter storm

We had a lovely rain the other day. The media covered it as an atmospheric river and there were some record numbers in terms of inches per day and gusts of wind, some areas of California suffered much more than others. But if you ask me - we just had a lovely winter storm. I was looking forward to drawing it but spent most of the time curled with a book under a blanket listening to the rain. I went outside to watch clouds as they were approaching though:

And tried to draw some rain images on tiny sheets of paper in between books. It looks like lots of trees are feeling the season finally. 

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