Sunday, November 4, 2018

High Line Sketches

I got to the High Line area earlier than our meeting time but Mark, our organizer was already down at street level sketching. It had stopped drizzling but was blustery and a bit cold. I was wearing several layers but decided I needed a hat too. Luckily there was a street vendor with a cart selling hats and scarves...perfect. I sat down and did a small sketch of the view down the street. The small sketches are probably about 2 x 2 1/2 inches long.



A few other sketchers arrived including a visitor from Maine and we headed up to the High Line, a raised greenway build on a former rail spur to the NY Central Railroad.  We were in luck because there were lots of fall colors on the trees and bushes...but it was very windy! I thought ahead and brought clips to hold my sketchbook pages down so they didn't keep blowing. This sketch was done in just watercolors.





We had another urban sketching visitor, Rob Sketcherman and his wife who were here from Hong Kong. Rob is a well-known digital artist who works on an iPad Pro using Procreate. He was in NYC because he had done a presentation at the Apple Conference that took place this past week. He is a digital sketching master and has taught at several of the Urban Sketching Symposiums. Here he is at work. 


Before we moved off to lunch I had enough time to do another quick small sketch.


More about our day tomorrow.



9 comments:

  1. I really enjoyed the High Line on my last trip to NYC. lucky you going out there to sketch. Is his name REALLY Rob Sketcherman? And he sketches on procreate. WOW! LOL Gotta look up his work.

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    1. That is is art name. He said when he was a kid he drew from comics and wanted to be a superhero. When he first started sketching outdoors a little kid came over and watched him for a while and then asked him what he was doing. He told the little boy he was sketching. The boy told him he thought he was drawing but if he was sketching he was "sketcherman." He adopted the name.

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  2. Great little sketches! You can cover a lot of ground with a small sketchbook. I sure would love to sketch the High Line someday!

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    1. It is a great place with super views of the city. You would love it.

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  3. Wow, you are so energetic. What fun to meet fellow sketchers from around the world. Our sketch group sort of fell apart, but the plein air group is going so will go with them and paint or sketch when I can.

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    1. Thanks. Sorry about the sketch group, but you seem to be having fun with the plein air group. It is fun to meet sketchers from different places. We get a lot of visitors that contact the group to find out where we'll be.

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  4. Wow - so many small pieces with so much detail! Lovely work Joan and you guys are all so intrepid - I would be staying home in the warmth - lol

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