LOKET SKETCHTOUR - a few more sketches (some unfinished)

 

 

The upper one is a direct watercolour sketch (the only without preliminary pencil drawing). My sketches are very different each time as when I knew I had lesser time, I started the sketch with inkpen (black or sanguine) The following for example was on the last day, close to the castle entrance, a few minutes before we met for breakfast. I had to hurry, so I pulled out my black ink pen and sketched first the young couple sitting on the bench next to me.

Then I did a sketch at breakfast, which is the left one. I liked the building with some art deco facade. The right side was made on a paper I did not really like and I had to throw a lot of colour onto the page in order to be satisfied with the outcome.

Then I tried again the "bad paper" with ink pen and watercolour, but again I did not like it, as it sucked in all the colour and needed endless time to get some colour onto the paper (and time is precious...so this is not the right paper for me)

My second last one was a sketch in the narrow streets surrounding Loket and a very nice man talked to me in Czech language but switched into perfect German as he noticed that I am German... Turned out that he lives in the house I was sketching... btw the lamps in Loket are huge, that is why I actually did this view.

 

Could not use watercolour because I had to hurry back for meeting the others for lunch. I even sketched two more unfinished, but that's it for now. 

It was a great joy to be in Loket in such good company. Thanks to @janvitek.art

 

LOKET SKETCHTOUR - watercolours

 

We had a fantastic time in Loket. Now follow a few of my real watercolours, which were done on good watercolour paper...

The first one is from "below the bridge", a view which was done by any participant of #loketsketchtour ...we were climbing up and down the stairs "schlepping" (a word Hana Alisa was using...) all the stuff up again...

 I continued  another one in size A3 with the following watercolour of the castle

It was quite hot that afternoon and in the beginning we sat in the shade...later it was so hot, that I did not finish totally...

The next day, I did a panoramic view on 20 x 40 cm watercolour paper 300gms

which was to the opposite side from the fortifying walls down to the railway track and bridge... 

 You can see that it was a very fast one. I did not consider much the details.

I like this for its light colouring, for the memories I had with Jana and the other great sketchers there and I am happy that the river is a bit visible in my painting.

I still got some more sketches from inside my sketchbook, which are not yet fotographed...stay tuned...more to come soon...

LOKET SKETCHTOUR - Nightsketching - colour & contrast

 

LOKET church in the background had just a few lights to its sides. We stood (some like DJ's working on larger pieces, like Jan Vitek, @janvitek.art) or sat in the town centre and sketched the area.

My sketch is in a sketchbook A5, double sided. My head torch was on and I was lucky to be able to see my paper for drawing...anyway we all tried to show the atmosphere of this late summer evening. The sketches of my fellow companions are on fb Urban Sketchers Prague

The next evening we were just three persons to still do a night sketch and I forgot to take my torch, so I sat down besides a street lamp below the massive castle of Loket and just did an inksketch of the castle garden with large round bushes, the lamps and the castle wall. The church tower was not illuminated and invisible in the distance. I used a mix of lunar blue and another dark watercolour directly from the tube to get a really dark sky and some shadows. In the end I used the beautiful cream coloured pencil, I once received as a gift from my sketchfriend Johanna from Hannover, while we did the last sketchtour (fb: johanna bd or @johannabd)

I was so happy that @elartista777 and @simon.north.77 were two of the very tough sketchers who were as enthousiastic as I was and we had a great time by the castle with chats about sketching materials and art talk.

Nightsketching is always veeery fun and some kind of experiment, as you never know what you get. The conditions are totally different from daytime and usually the timespan you sketch is much shorter than usual, due to not seing a lot, being tired and often harsher conditions (weather, insects, cold...)...This time we were just a little tired, which is why I did not throw a lot of watercolour on my sheet

Let's do that again soon!

Summer is over? No!

 

 

Dear Friends, the summer is not yet over and I first would like to thank everyone who bought my book so far. Thank you for your great support. If you did not order a book yet, do not hesitate and grab one, while still hot...;)

Liebe Freunde, der Sommer ist glücklicherweise noch nicht vorbei und ich danke denjenigen, die bereits eines meiner schönen Bücher gekauft haben. Falls ihr noch keines habt, dann zögert nicht und bestellt eines, solange der Vorrat reicht.

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I am now looking forward to the beginning of Loket Sketchtour which will start this Friday. I already filled up my watercolour palette, which is still the way as I display below:

 ... I will add a few tubes of very dark colours such as DS moonglow and a dark violet for eventual night sketches to my watercolour kit (...as well as a headlamp, which proved helpful if it is very dark). I packed lots of different papers and sketchbooks and will report on my sketches very soon.

I am so looking forward to meet again my sketchfriends and sketch litterally from dusk till dawn...so stay tuned...

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Jetzt freue ich mich erstmal auf die Loket Sketchtour und auf meine Freunde und erwarte ein langes Wochenende das sicher komplett durchgemalt wird... also schaut wieder rein, um meine Skizzen und Erzählungen zu sehen...