I was sketching with an Urban Sketching student at the Rollins College campus.The student was just working with pencil so we ended up sketching about three different locations. I had to pick up my pace to get something resembling finished sketches for each. I am used to going to a location and spending all my time completing one sketch during the course of an event.
In this sketch I was pointing out the perspective in the scene. I put a lone house on the far shore where the vanishing point would be for the boats in the foreground. Since my student was seated to my right, his vanishing point would have been slightly different. We spent a moment figuring out the perspective from his vantage point.
I also pointed out that just the closest boat had to be rather accurate. If that boat read as dimensional then the other boats would seem dimensional even if they were just quickly sketched in.
I have taken sailing courses so I could probably handle one of these sail boats fairly well. I was discussing this with Pam this weekend and we came to the conclusion that the course I passes was over 20 years ago. I am not sure if sailing is like riding a bicycle and you never get rusty.