Hi!
My wife and I live in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, which is a suburb of Vancouver. We are a half hour drive from the US border and about a six hour drive from Portland.
I am a retired accountant, I have always liked looking at art and illustration so I started drawing and painting in ink and watercolor when I retired. I have no formal art training other than some continuing ed drawing courses. I enjoy reading drawing books and playing with art materials.
I am currently carrying around, left to right, Holbein waterbrush, #8 brush, #14 brush, Pentel brush pen, Staedtler Lumocolor marker, Shin Han Art Touch marker, Uni-ball Vision micro pen, Sakura fine Gelly Roll pen and a Lamy Safari pen with Noodlers Polar Black ink. It seems I am mostly using the Gelly Roll and the Lamy.
Also in my kit is the large sketchbook, 8.5 x 11 inches, the small 5x7 inches. The watercolor palette is a Yarka student one but I found the paint was all sort of pastel so I took it out and put in mostly Davinci tube colors. The plastic lid is a good mixing tray.
Here are a couple of recent efforts. I post my stuff at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donmcn
I enjoy looking at Urbansketchers every day. So many wonderful, inspiring artists. Portland is going to be a joy.
See you there!
Don
Nice to see people introduce themselves. Hope you get to arrive a day or so early or stay a little longer.
ReplyDeleteWill be fun to meet you in person after seeing your work on flickr for so long. See you soon!
ReplyDeleteThank you both, yes, we are going to stay for a few days after, looking forward to meeting internet friends in person.
ReplyDeleteHey Don, I'm an accountant, too! Maybe we can count a few beans between sketches in Portland:) I'm coming down from Whidbey Island with Lisbeth Cort and Faye Castle. See you there.
ReplyDeleteHi Don, thanks for sharing your tools and sketches. Look forward to meeting you in person.
ReplyDeleteHi Sue and Donna, see you in Portland.
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