





![]() Today was CoSo Fresh Paint day and I participated for my third straight year. I was feeling pretty confident this year because I only had to do an 8 x 10 scratchboard this year instead of the 14 x 14 size we did the last two years. I decided that I was going to do the view down Lansdowne Street behind Fenway Park. The Sox are on the road, but I got there and found hundreds of people on the road for the start of a 5k race. I found a seat out of the way, between a lamppost and a rubbish barrel and started working on this scene. ![]() It took me until 10 am to get the scene sketched out in watercolor. I had to erase most parts of it at least once before I got it fairly straight. The pickup on the left and the 5k starting gate were soon gone, so they never made it into the final picture. ![]() It took me until 10:50 to get the image scratched in so I could erase the watercolor. ![]() This is as far as I had made it be noon, and I was starting to think I might not get it done. ![]() By 2:00, however, things had progressed nicely. I had come prepared to color the picture, having mixed a batch of Green Monster green, and I was now at the point where I had to decide if I was going to color it or not. ![]() I decided against coloring the picture and spent the last hour refining the values and fixing the details. At 3 pm I declared victory and headed back to the gallery.
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Some of the best work I've done isn't hanging on a wall; it's sitting in a box in my closet that's full of my old sketch books. I fill up one or two books each year. Some of the sketches end up as a basis of a more formal work, but most don't. They’re more important to me as a pictorial diary and also as on-going training; learning to really see and to understand shape, light and color.
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