Liz Steel - Seeing Klass - Sketchbook Skool

Koch Building, part 2

Waiting at the airport.

5.5x8.5" journal page. Strathmore Mixed Media Journal.

Pen and watercolor.

I had a short vacation last week. Are they ever long enough? I had such a great time and didn't want to come back! This is what I did for a while to entertain myself until boarding. Added color at home.

Building on N. Oliver, Wichita, KS

9x12 Journal Page, Pen and watercolor.

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I love this building. It's near where I work and catches my attention every time I drive by.

The Schmidt Porch

I love this porch. I am so envious. :D

Pen and ink with watercolor wash on Canson watercolor paper.
(I do not like this paper—just sayin')

France Belleville-Van Stone

Another Sketchbook Skool teacher portrait. I have to redo this one. It looks a bit like her but it looked more like her before I went too far and messed it up. I'm not very good at watercolor yet and it's real hard to change it once you've done it. :/

My Kitchen - (a Sketchbook Skool homework)

Just now getting around to posting this one. This was for Tommy Kane's klass in the Beginnings course.

Miguel Herranz

Stretching Klass 5 - Miguel Herranz (Instructor)
Sketchbook Skool

Lapin - Sketchbook Skool Instructor

This Lapin. He's a Frenchman living in Barcelona. His assignment was to do a big head/small body person. So I drew him. :)

Sketchbook Skool assignments

Today's Sketchbook Skool assignment from France Belleville-Van Stone's klass. France wrote the book "Sketch", which I bought several months ago before I ever signed up for this klass, or knew that she would be one of the instructors. This assignment was to draw something with wheels twice—once with color and another one just drawn with cross-hatching. I haven't done the cross-hatched one yet.

This one is from Lapin's klass (I'll post his portrait tomorrow after I take a better picture of it.) 

Assignment:  Draw a big head/little body person. I drew my dad. It was very difficult because he wouldn't sit still and he kept leaning over. :/  This is a new concept for me so I haven't really gotten it right yet. The body still needs to be smaller—kind of like a bobble-head. 

Jonathan Twingley - Sketchbook Skool Instructor

These are some of my latest sketches. Since I just started this blog, I will be posting some pages randomly from my sketchbook—in no particular order. These two are my first two instructors in the Sketchbook Skool klasses. (yes, they spell it with a k) :)

First week:

Jonathan Twingley

Tomorrow I'll post another one.

Old Cowtown Museum

About a month ago I spent a morning waking around our Old Cowtown Museum. I sat on a bench across the street from the Dry Goods/Clothing store and sketched it. While I was sitting there sketching, this pretty girl decided to join me. After rubbing back and forth against my leg for a minute she curled up for a nap in the corner next to my bench. I think I made a new friend. :)

I finished my sketch of the building, leaving the coloring of it for when I got home. This day was such a beautiful, sunny day that I really enjoyed the morning walk around the streets, peeking in each building to take a few pictures. I didn't take pictures inside the saloon because you can actually grab a sandwich and drink there and it was occupied by a family doing just that. I didn't think they'd appreciate me intruding and taking their picture. 

Cowtown is larger than I remembered. The streets went around in a circle (or square). As you come in you pass the church on your left and the old shack on the right, keep going to the end of the street and turn left at the pharmacy, you'll pass the livery stable and the meat market, then turn left again at the train depot, you'll pass some houses and then arrive at the schoolhouse, and end up back where you started. 

Here is a video of some of the pictures. I took a grip load of pics so I couldn't include them all. 

Here is a of sketch from my sketchbook: