sketches

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

Day one hundred and twenty-one: After yesterday’s study based on an etching by D. Y. Cameron, I thought I’d try making my own etched-like sketch of an architectural setting. This study is the neoclassical façade of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts building. I started by creating a layer of “plate tone” in the spirit of Whistler, Cameron, and others, but didn’t find my “etched” lines sufficient to render the setting. So I enhanced the tone and sketched in some added swaths of color. The result reminds of a strange hand-colored etching, or perhaps one with color aquatint. Not my favorite result, but it is a study, after all.