Having not picked up my pencils to sketch or draw since July 2023 I thought it was time to make some physical canvas art. Works since July 2023 heavily featured digital works, which I found most enjoyable, inspiring and exhilarating.

So here we have “The Boathouse Cafe Views” [28th/29th January 2024], a sketch I made in under one hour over three quick individual drafts. The latter two drafts purely just to neaten and include darker charcoal tones in the trees and edges.

You will appreciate this is, of course, very sketchy in composition for-the-viewer-to-decide what they wish the undrawn elements might represent. Illustration has a style for using blank canvas space, whereby some details are not drawn for speed of production and to add artistic value.

Here is my original photograph (shown below) which I cropped for the image you see and then digitally Solarized. Solarizing reverses certain colours within an image via digital software, creating unusual or highly contrasted definition.

Upon solarizing the image it looked rather artistic.

For artists enjoying watercolours I feel this is an excellent composition to try and even produce professionally.

The place where I photographed “The Boathouse Cafe Views” is only yards from an earlier compositional piece entitled “Lake Path in Street Lamp Light” shown in my blog article here [click the link]:

Lake Path in Street Lamp Light

Hope you enjoy.