I don’t always have time to finish a sketch.This sketch was done with a student of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum on the Rollin’s College campus. The goal of the lesson was to fit as much of the building on the page as possible along with the much smaller jeep and motorcycle parked out front. We didn’t go in so I am not sure what is on exhibit. I haven’t been inside the museum since long before the start of the pandemic.
My student lost interest in the building long before the sketch was complete. Since my idea of a complete sketch included color and value, it tends to take longer that a student just using a pencil. I got enough of the sketch done of that there are 3 values, namely black, mid tones and the white of the paper. Since time was limited much more of the paper is left white to save time.
After this sketch was “complete” we wandered behind the museum where a crowd of maskless woman were having an animated conversation, I assume about art. We set up on the lawn lakeside and sketch a gazebo across the way. That sketch was also incomplete but a good lesson on how to quickly block in elements of a scene.