Javascript Experiment

Well I had to see if I could do anything with this. So I have created this page based in javascript that responds to what time of day it is. Take a leedle look.

www.sketchidea.ca/greeting.php


That's the link, enjoy.

Downtown in Vancouver

Being fortunate to spend some time downtown and to pick up the pen...

More or Less Square

Sometimes the friendliest shape, is something you can't recognise.

Picket fence

I've combined two images here to create quite a striking result:

Click the image to see a larger version.

Fibonacci et al

Here are some sketches I've done in acrylic paint, they're just kinda abstract experimenting with shape and form. This mini-series of sketches uses a strict set of colours, pale lemon, green gold, pale olive and cadmium orange (hue). I decided that I wanted to experiment and explore the shapes and colour effects but reducing the potential outcomes (by using few colours) and also increasing the comparability.

This first image I've explored straight edges (another theme I've stuck to with these sketches) and rectangles that stack up irregularly.

This second image I wanted to explore the same straight edges but loosening up on the rectangles and exploring composition and layout.

This third image uses fibonacci, which I'm not going to explain, but if you're familiar with it and the golden section you'll probably see its application in this image.

Faleria, Italian Hill Town, Street

Moving a little bit away from the portraits I've been working on, this is obviously a street scene. The street being one in Faleria, Italy. Faleria is a really interesting place to walk around as half of the town is in ruins (from an earthquake in the 1950s). I went there in May 2005 and took lots of photos.

Ink Detail

Sogno

This is a sketch from way back in September '09, and I've just edited it slightly in Photoshop to enhance the colours.

New ink sketches

These are my second bout of drawings from this portraits (drawn from memory/imagination). Again these sketches have been done in ink on watercolour paper. I guess you could say I have a thing for bright colour, and I have enjoyed experimenting in these sketches with different colour combinations and tonalities.

Ink idea

Here's a series of ink sketches made on various types of watercolour paper (including my favourite Fabriano) that I made this week (actually on Thursday 11th Feb '10.)