Day two hundred and eleven: In some ways it doesn’t really matter what the subject of the daily sketch may be: it’s can be very peaceful and relaxing to simply figure out how to represent something with line, light, dark, or color, as it flows spontaneously. Tonight I found a photo that I took a couple summers ago in at the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, Norway. The park is filled with sculptures of people, and there is a great sense of humanity and community there. I chose to sketch this snapshot for its striking balance of power and simplicity. The man seems both humble and heroic as he holds the baby. On a whim, I added color to the pencil sketch because the background in the photograph was pale sky, and the sculpture itself a steely, stone blue. But in the end it needed highlights, so I included a few patches and lines of white, which in turn reminded me of a chiaroscuro woodcut print. It would be fun to try and make a color woodcut of this image with two shades of blue, black, and white.
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