Kincaid – Week Six Recap

This week was really good for live sketching, since the weather was so nice. I went to the Saint Louis Art Museum on Wednesday and to Faust Park today. Every other day this week I spent on the Riverfront Trail in Washington. I don’t have any pictures of what I did at the Art Museum, since I’m not really proud of how they turned out. I’ll be going there again next week, so hopefully it’ll go a little smoother. I was really pleased with what I painted at Faust Park, though, so I attached it down below. I think I did a decent job on the composition and values. The picture below it is something I did at the Riverfront, which was a lot of fun. I wanted to make the river look more interesting, so I added someone poking their head out of the water. One of my favorite graphic artists, Tillie Walden, has a book called I Love This Part, where she plays a lot with scale and puts characters in nature scenes and city sky scapes, and I was inspired a lot by that.

This week, I was able to finish Chapter 1 of the Arlys stories. I attached a couple pictures that I finished today down below. I have 16 pages total, including the introduction. My plan for next week is to clean up the pages and add speech bubbles. I don’t plan on inking or coloring the pages, just sharpening some details, fixing my mistakes, and redrawing a couple panels.

This week, I started to memorize another Shakespeare sonnet, but I may not finish it. I will probably get deeper into the first sonnet and try to understand the language a bit more. I finished up Good Poems, which took me the whole week, since it’s a thick book. It’s been my favorite one so far.

For Arabic, I’ve started memorizing another set of vocabulary words and phrases. Tomorrow, Mrs. Hassan and I will have a lesson, and we’re going to start a section about how to negate verbs.