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coso fresh paint day - April 24th, 2016

4/24/2016

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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.


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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.


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It took me until 10:50 to get the image scratched in so I could erase the watercolor.


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This is as far as I had made it be noon, and I was starting to think I might not get it done.


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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.


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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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