It’s always good to finish sketches from a previous trip before heading out on another one. These are from a trip with friends last November. We wandered the city of New Orleans for four days and had a great time seeing the sites, listening to music and eating fantastic food. NOLA is on my “places to return to” list, for sure.
While I haven’t posted anything in a very long time, I have spent some time sketching and working on my skills. I have a few goals for my sketches these these days: 1) to sketch more quickly, so I don’t irritate anyone who accompanies me wherever I am, 2) to simplify the scenes, choosing a focus that tells a story or evokes the feeling of a place or subject, and 3) to increase the variation in value so my work is more lively.
I continue to struggle with landing on what I will consider to be my foundational color choices for my palette, wresting with ways to use a minimal set of colors to achieve harmony and maximize mixing space in my travel palettes while not getting frustrated with my “on the spot” mixing capabilities, or the time it takes to do that mixing. Work in progress! Currently, this is what I am working with, both sets in Art Toolkit travel palettes, which I love.
Lynne Beattie Art & Design 
Other than the music, my most detailed memories of New Orleans are of all the color. The neighborhood gardens are gorgeous!
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