Sketching

I love my sketchbook, even though it’s cheap and has multimedia paper rather than watercolour paper. Sometimes, it’s easier to do a little practice run to see what a finished painting will look like or see if how you want to approach something will actually work.

Mostly, I like the feeling that a sketch doesn’t need to get bogged down in detail. You can paint as loosely as you like and the pressure to do a “good” painting is gone.

I don’t have a lot of time today and decided to do a quick sketch of an unnamed mountain in the Ibex Valley I want to do a full painting of later. It has character, with its sheer, rugged cliff face.

Unnamed mountain, Ibex Valley. Watercolour sketch on paper, 7×10 inches.
Painting of the day 1908.