Days 572 and 573 Dinner at a Pub - Coaster Art

It's nice to draw in a pub; lots of activity, people, interesting decor and interesting overlap of foreground to background, and often a view out the window with backlighting.  I carry some blank coasters with me, and draw on them, adding watercolor later.  The texture is interesting and super absorbent... coaster's job.  We ate at McGreevy's in Boston the other night, great food and a fun pub atmosphere.  The Red Sox game was cancelled as the skies opened up just after the game's starting time.... soggy fans poured in.  The onslaught got the kitchen confused and our food was delayed.  We didn't care.  It gave me more time to draw, and to enjoy dinner with my husband and daughter. The first two drawings were made while sitting in the pub, and the third from a photo I took out front as we left. 

These are my five hundred seventy-second and third daily drawings.  Thank you for your continued interest.    

Day 94 "Chocolate Bar" 9 x 12 pen&ink

Another drawing of the L.A. Burdick Chocolate Shop in Boston.  It has interior mirrors which make for a very interesting juxtaposition of foreground, middle and background figures and images.  We spent today indoors during the snow bombogenesis, a day off from school, fifteen inches of snow to shovel later in the day before tomorrow's deep freeze.  Drawing images of the sweet smelling hot chocolate and shop was cathartic.  Thank you for looking at my ninety-fourth daily drawing.

Day 90 "Desktop" - drawing with turpentine 8 x 16 oil

On Day 88 I drew precious objects on my desktop, actually, my grandmother's desk that I inherited from my mother.  Tonight I began a painting of the same objects by drawing with turpentine. I laid a neutral ground on the board as a wash which included ultramarine, alizarin, cadmium red light and viridian.  I leaned it a little more ultramarine to the left where the window is and a little warmer away from the window.  I aimed for a value about 3.5 on a 1 to 5 scale with 5 the darkest.  I wiped the wash in, then used a clean brush with solvent to wipe away only the areas in light.  By making accurate marks, the composition is showing without the application of any paint beyond the initial wash, and the values are already in place.  (The green on the board is from a prior exercise, so try to ignore... I will eventually cover up.) In any places where I was too exuberant with the turps, I could use another brush to add the neutral wash back in.  

Day 88 - "Desktop"

You can see the completed painting as of January 1, 2018 on our Girls Just Wanna Paint blog along with our group's other interpretations of December's theme, "luxury".  
This is Day 90 of my daily drawing endeavors!  Thank you for looking and for your thoughtful comments.