Some Sketching on the Bus

Here are just a few of the people who ride my bus.  I've taken to sketching on the bus from time to time, and this is what I've come up with.  I am new to drawing figures, so they aren't perfect.  But even though they aren't perfect, I think they look great nonetheless.  You can clearly see what these people look like an what they are doing.    

I am looking forward to painting more bus people as the days go bye.

Since most of the people are sitting in front of me in the front of the bus, they have a pole next to them.  That's just the way our bus is lined out.  The woman with coffee was actually sitting behind me which is why there is no pole for her.

Please check back from time to time to see more sketches.  And be sure to let me know if you like these or not.

Down on the Embarcadero

Ok, here we go again.  This is a second painting of Giovanni's Market and Gallery.  If you don't remember the first one, you can view it here.  This painting is from the opposite direction and some obvious differences.  

The first real differences is that this painting has all the proper colors.  The previous one was taken from a black and white photo, and I was working from memory on the colors. This one was painted from a color picture and so, all the colors are correct(ish).    I got a bit more ambitious with this one too.  Obviously there are people in the painting, but also there is tile and brickwork, among other things.

I used ink to outline and highlight edges on this painting.  My intent was to not to do that.  I wanted to only use paint to edge the painting, but I couldn't quite keep the lines straight enough, so i had to switch over to pen.  I like how the outlining turned out everywhere except around the main awning.  Oh well, that's how it goes sometime.

Anyway, I had a great time painting this, hope you all enjoy it.