Urban Sketch

With the farmer’s market as today’s sketching location, I knew it would be pretty ambitious to capture so much activity in gouache alone, so I brought a fountain pen and a cheap portable watercolor palette instead. I relied on ink lines to capture shapes quickly so that I would have time to drop some color…

Sketched from the Surfside pier on a frighteningly windy day. I had to grip my sketchbook hard to keep the wind from taking it. Lines: Noodler’s Bulletproof Black ink in Traveller’s Co. brass fountain pen Canvas: Traveller’s Co. sketchbook paper