Saturday, September 19, 2009

"Franklin County Courthouse"

A small group of drawers, sketchers, and painters got together this morning in Pasco, WA., to sketch, draw, paint the old Franklin County Courthouse. It was much like what a sketchcrawl would be, but we have yet to get a sketchcrawl group going - not too many of the others are online addicts like I am.

For someone who doesn't do much architecture, this was a fun sketch. I filled a couple of pages in my sketchbook, and decided this is the one that I wanted to post up. The building stretches left and right for about another 2/3rds. In other words, this sketch represents about 1/3 of the structure because I wanted to focus on the copper dome.

The building was remodeled two or three years ago and though it was very handsome before, it is even more so today.


watercolor, ink, sketch

7 comments:

  1. This is a wonderful sketch!! I love the minimalist approach!!

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  2. Love it - really loose and fun with just the right amount of color.

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  3. There you go with those architectural detail again! Love this!

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  4. Handsome lines! Impressive details, nice colors. Overall a great package :)

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  5. For someone who doesn't do much architecture, you certainly do know how to do it! Very nicely done. nany

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  6. Very pretty. Nice and loose and I like that the color is focused on the area most important to you. Excellent job! Maybe more architecture work is in your future!

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