JAMAICA DINING ROOM

I did this sketch about 2.5 years ago.  It is of a dining room in Jamaica.

It is one of the few transparent sketches that I did in situ.  I started the sketch during breakfast.  And then I took a photo of what I was drawing.  Then I finished the sketch a short time later.

It is interesting to note how many transparent rules that I broke.  The water does not go thru the columns.  I put a solid blue tone on the ceiling coffers, with no transparency whatsoever.

Yet the columns are transparent.  And I was able to use transparency so as to capture the manner in which the room visually framed the ocean.  As you can see by the photograph that I took, the photo feels very closed in when compared with the openness of the sketch.
The trip that we are currently on  was set at a slower pace than usual.  I hope that I am finding time to at least start a sketch or two in situ.

While at Transparent Drawing we espouse essentially photo based drawing, there is something special about drawing while looking at a space or a building.  No question about it.