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And on we go...

I combined a bunch of steps here because I was lazy and didn't feel like getting up and scanning for each one.



I added a wash of Transparent Brown Oxide over the bricks to tone them down a bit more.
I did those 4 windows up top with the same colors as the sky, since they're reflecting sky.
I did that little narrow band on top of the roof with a combination of Olive Green and a touch of Charcoal Grey.
I did the big windows with a combination of Charcoal Grey and Payne's Grey, with a little olive and some blues worked in for some variation, although they don't really show. I don't want to show any specific reflections here, so I just went with "dark". At this size, that works well, I've learned from experience.



I keep forgetting that bit to the right. I went back in and did the windows. In the photo it looks like that part is set back just a little bit, and also like there is a glass door there. So I made it look slightly different. I'll tone down this part some later on so it sets back a little.

I also added a light wash to the roof. In the photo its really washed out, and its difficult to tell what color it really is. So I made it pale blue grey, using the palette I already have going. I'll add the "stripes" to it later, maybe with pencil.

I also put a grey wash down at the bottom to establish the sidewalk and a bit of parking lot in front. I left the area where the plants are going to be blank.

OK, back to work!!!

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Here's the start of my rendering of this restaurant, Sopa.


First thing I did was get a line drawing.
I enlarged the photo (scanned it, enlarged it in Photoshop), made a grayscale out of it and printed it out.
I traced over it on my lightbox, correcting the distortion and taking out the offending bits like the power pole. I just wanted to get all the basic lines and shapes down here.


I put the new line drawing on my lightbox and transferred it to my watercolor paper.
The scan made bad edges, but I just left them here. They're not really on the paper!
I forgot those couple of lines on the right side, but its OK, I'll fix that later, its easy.


I lightened the drawing by going over it with a white eraser, lightly lightly lightly. No hard pressure, because I don't want to ruin the tooth of the paper.

I put in a wash of sky with a mixture of Holbein Blue Grey and Horizon Blue, being careful around the edge of the roof. I just kind of let the paint do whatever it wanted to.



Next up are the bricks. I decided to do washes of 'brick color' over the whole area, then will come back in with pencil at the end and do some white lines.
This is two layers of Holbein Light Red and Windsor Newton Burnt Sienna. I carefully went around the signage and windows and other bits. It looks rough, but I purposely wanted to get some variation in the paint to give it some interest.


It was kinda bright, so I went over it all with a light wash of WN Caput Mortuum Violet.


I may do another wash or two on the bricks, then I'll move on to the other parts.
Stay tuned!

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This is my newest project: rendering this building for a magazine.

What a terrible photo! Its distorted, the very tip top is cut off, and its snowing!!! This is typical of what I get to work from. (No offense to my nice art director who has to go out on site in the middle of his day and snap some photos for me ~ I know its not easy!) But you can see that these are not fancy pictures taken with a tripod and nice lighting, and I have absolutely no control over this part of the project. I just have to do the best I can with what they give me.

I've actually rendered this building before when it was called something else, but I'd forgotten until I saw the pictures (yes, there's more than one picture, and this one is the best, believe it or not). Even though I guess I could just try to Photoshop the new signage over the old illustration, I prefer to do a fresh piece.

So stay tuned, I'll blog it as I go along here.

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In other news, Wendell the kitty should be coming home from the kitty hospital later today. He's been there 3 days with a urinary catheter and IV and has been completely miserable, poor little guy. I visited him every day (twice yesterday) and tried to cheer him up, but it didn't help too much. I just can't wait to get him home where I'm hoping he'll recover quickly.

If you're in the Sacramento area and need a top notch place to take your dog or cat, go to VCA. They are AMAZINGly wonderful, have 24 hour emergency care, and are just so darned nice to your pet while he or she is there. I can't say enough nice things about it.

And I have a new one. A ratty looking, very sweet tomcat who's adopted us. Next week he goes in to get snipped and poked with vaccines. He's so new I don't even have a name for him yet! Sometimes they're easy to name, sometimes not, you know? This one's eluding me a bit. I walk around the house going "hey Bartholomew (no), hey Samuel (no), hey Degas (NO)...". It takes about 1,000 tries and one will finally 'fit'. Wendell took a while, but once I hit on that one, it really stuck. We'll see!

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He's kind of weird,
But not insane,
Just a little bit odd,
For he has no brain.

Oh Ed, you're a goofy fellow. Never fails to make me smile.

A simplified version of this image is available as a t-shirt from Bountee. Along with a few other of my designs.