Comments on: Sketching from the Air http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/ ... an intermittent sketchblog ... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:03:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Claudia http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11939 Claudia Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:08:36 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11939 Nice sketches; especially the one of the airplane cockpit! Nice sketches; especially the one of the airplane cockpit!

]]> By: Mariana http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11723 Mariana Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:01:35 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11723 Oh my, both sketches are great but the landscape one is SO pretty. I love the way you've contrasted the black and white of the window with the sweet colours of the land below. Very nice! Oh my, both sketches are great but the landscape one is SO pretty. I love the way you’ve contrasted the black and white of the window with the sweet colours of the land below. Very nice!

]]> By: Africantapestry http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11622 Africantapestry Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:34:19 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11622 Great sketches of some difficult scenes. I have never even considered sketching the groun down below and the dashboard of a car is scary to me, let alone one in a plane! Nice work. Ronell Great sketches of some difficult scenes. I have never even considered sketching the groun down below and the dashboard of a car is scary to me, let alone one in a plane! Nice work.
Ronell

]]> By: petescully http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11499 petescully Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:49:36 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11499 great choice of colours in the first one, it's really a nice one, and i like the second one but...who's flying the plane?! great choice of colours in the first one, it’s really a nice one, and i like the second one but…who’s flying the plane?!

]]> By: Anita Davies http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11490 Anita Davies Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:11:34 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11490 Wonderful sketches, love the panel. Wonderful sketches, love the panel.

]]> By: Bill http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11489 Bill Sun, 07 Oct 2007 17:52:12 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11489 Course you could have called it "Things are looking down"! At any rate, nice work. And here I was (last June) on a turbo prop job on the second leg of a trip to Colorado, and I didn't even think of sketching out the window. I do have an excuse, a fellow watercolorist lady kept me busy the whole trip with shop talk! Nice sketch with tasteful color as always. Hard to do that, sketching scenery out a window of a moving plane. My attention is focused easily on the color area, leaving the plane structures to provide context. Course you could have called it “Things are looking down”!
At any rate, nice work. And here I was (last June) on a turbo prop job on the second leg of a trip to Colorado, and I didn’t even think of sketching out the window. I do have an excuse, a fellow watercolorist lady kept me busy the whole trip with shop talk!
Nice sketch with tasteful color as always. Hard to do that, sketching scenery out a window of a moving plane. My attention is focused easily on the color area, leaving the plane structures to provide context.

]]> By: Katherine http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11484 Katherine Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:07:51 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11484 I really like that first one. I've often taken photos out of a plane window but never sketched. I guess it's that thing about not quite knowing how long something is going to look the same. However I've sketched out of a car window on long drives through Arizona and New Mexico. I guess I should try the plane next time! I really like that first one.

I’ve often taken photos out of a plane window but never sketched. I guess it’s that thing about not quite knowing how long something is going to look the same. However I’ve sketched out of a car window on long drives through Arizona and New Mexico. I guess I should try the plane next time!

]]> By: Lee-Roy http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11481 Lee-Roy Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:57:13 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11481 Great sketches! I love that first one out the window! Cool experiment. It works really well. I once flew round-trip in a four-seater single-prop plane (may very well have been a Cessna 182, I don't know) between Aspen and Vegas. Those smaller planes fly at lower altitudes and so you can see a whole lot more detail of what you're flying over. Really some incredible views of desert terrain on the trip I took. I also flew "copilot" — en route to Vegas. No sketching, but I did shoot some Super 8 footage. Didn't do it justice, though. Great sketches! I love that first one out the window! Cool experiment. It works really well.

I once flew round-trip in a four-seater single-prop plane (may very well have been a Cessna 182, I don’t know) between Aspen and Vegas. Those smaller planes fly at lower altitudes and so you can see a whole lot more detail of what you’re flying over. Really some incredible views of desert terrain on the trip I took. I also flew “copilot” — en route to Vegas. No sketching, but I did shoot some Super 8 footage. Didn’t do it justice, though.

]]> By: Bonny http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11473 Bonny Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:35:40 +0000 http://www.trumpetvine.com/sketchblog/2007/10/06/cessna/#comment-11473 I like the effect of the inked window and simple water colour fields. That really is what it looks like from up there - the immediate solidness of the window contrasts with the seemingly ephemeral landscape below. The window seems more real at that moment!!! I have flown several times with my husband in Cesnas, and in commercial planes as well. Never thought to draw while I'm up there. Nice painting! I like the effect of the inked window and simple water colour fields. That really is what it looks like from up there - the immediate solidness of the window contrasts with the seemingly ephemeral landscape below. The window seems more real at that moment!!!
I have flown several times with my husband in Cesnas, and in commercial planes as well. Never thought to draw while I’m up there. Nice painting!

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