sketches

This sketch is the one hundred and sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year…

Day one hundred and six: This sketch was inspired by a painting titled
“On the Nile” by the nineteenth-century American painter, Sanford Robinson Gifford. The painting appeared in a presentation at the conference today. My digital drawing pad would have better captured the subtle luminosity of the sky and water, but I mostly wanted to explore the reflection of the sail in the water, and the iPhone worked fine for a quick study of that. In the original painting, the sail and its reflection create an almost abstract vertical arc in a scene that is otherwise naturalistic. Very lovely.