View from my car

Thursday August 25th 2005, 10:37 pm
Filed under: Moleskine, Commute, Watercolored pencils

There has been a discussion on the Everyday Matters Group about doing some speedy blind contour drawing while being in a car and stopping for a red light. Hmmm…one thing, it is not advised when you are the driver, but it can certainly be done when you are the passenger. That’s what I did this morning. I didn’t do it “blind” nor while waiting for a red light. I did it while we were on the highway going to work. So everything passed by so quickly that I had to start while the object is still in a distance. If I couldn’t finished the sketch after we passed by the object, I had to draw whatever is left from what I could memorized. So they are very quick sketches of 5-10 seconds in ink. I colored the page in the car too, and at home I applied a bit of water with a brush. It was really fun and challenging to do.

Where were these sketches made? Where are these things located?
- Classic windmill on the left is located in Breukelen.
- Classic windmill on the right is located in Vinkeveen.
- We passed by this motorcyclist while approaching Holendrecht
- Modern windmill on the right is located near Holendrecht
- In the bottom middle, is station Amsterdam RAI
- The cranes are located nearby the station.
- The trash containers in the middle are located near the ING House


3 Comments »

  1. Evy, this is so fun to see! It almost puts me right there with you, in the car, looking right and left at windmills! What a wonderful idea!

    Comment by Laura — August 26, 2005 @ 9:23 pm


  2. That drawing is so awesome!

    Comment by DoobyStew — August 29, 2005 @ 3:18 pm


  3. Not quite the same concept (since I was stuck in slow moving traffic instead of lights) but here’s something similar I did recently.

    p.s - your sketchcrawl stuff is fantastic!

    Comment by Rob — September 12, 2005 @ 12:05 am


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