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The sketches I intend to post on this site are ones that I do on vacations to the Caribbean Islands via cruise ships. Escaping from the northeast USA winter for a couple of weeks a year, my wife and I are basically beach and resort-pool junkies. Drawing is one of my favorite activities on vacation. I bring a compact sack of supplies and a thin, wire bound sketchbook that all fits into a medium sized ziploc bag.
Everything that I look at seriously as a subject (everything EYE see) seems to have infinite detail. Sketching for me is a process of eliminating and sorting. Clearly, I'm talking about EXTERIOR visions here. I learn things through the observation needed to do these sketches. Like for example: sea gull's "knees" point backward, not forward. You could learn that by just watching them walk on the shore, but I never did "get" it till I tried to draw them. That sounds mundane perhaps, but it felt like a little shot of magic to me.
I tinker with these sketches at home sometimes, and then they ultimately get put into a drawer, and vacation is over. If I don't bring art supplies on our trips, I end up doing massive amounts of reading, and that's great too!
UPDATE, JULY '08:I put up an album of images from the Stained Glass work which is the most creative thing I do.These projects always involve design sketches, usually multiple ones at different scales, to work out details to the clients' or my own satisfaction.I often do full scale color sketches to be able to better visualize the final results, and there's always a cutting pattern of black outlines to make (also at full scale) to lay the cut pieces of glass on to begin the process of soldering them together.
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