Monday, April 6, 2009

" Laura's garden "

                           8  x  11   pencil, tombow pen, watercolor

This is the piece done with the local San Diego Sketchcrawl get together, we meet at Laura's house which was a feast for the eyes. We then ate lunch together and passed around our drawing pads. Good company and good artists makes for a fun time.

31 comments:

adebanji said...

Beautiful, beautiful sweep of washes and lines! I love the effect of light on the scene!

L.Holm said...

What a fun day, and lovely sketch, Dominique. You're lucky to have a group to paint/sketch with. I love Tombow brush pens--gonna break mine out! Is this on bristol or wc paper? Liz

dominique eichi said...

Adebanji, You would off love this house. Thanks for your comment.



Liz, thanks , I did. I have to credit Adebanji for introducing me to Tombow pens. It's in my regular sketch pad Cachet - Daler & Rowney. It's all full of waves now, oh well..

Paintings by Irit Bourla said...

I agree with Adebaji..It is so beautiful and peaceful.
Can I join you on this deck? Just wonder.

dominique eichi said...

Thanks Irit, Hey what are you doing Thursday ? I am going to the Getty with my daughter, maybe there or after we could meet ? e-mail me.

Vern Schwarz said...

Great composition and sketch Dominique. I really like the wash as well. I just started reading The Shack...good book so far!

David Larson Evans said...

Great job well done very inviting.

dominique eichi said...

Vern, :) thank you,.... tell me what you think of the book when your finished, I was part of a book club that meet each week , my gosh did we talk a lot about impressive sentences in there. UNDERLINE them when they are special to you. because you will want to revisit them. Believe me

dominique eichi said...

David, thank you so much , it was a nice place.

Edward Burton said...

Sounds like a lot of fun, Dominique. Great job - makes me want to sit there and relax.

dominique eichi said...

Edward, Thank you, it was a great place.

Stephen Gardner said...

Great Palm tree action, it's like I never left Mexico. Laura's got a great garden. Beautiful drawing.

dominique eichi said...

Stephen, actually I was thinking of the other palm I did I have a blog called dancing strokes for sketches like that and it's at the top of this one in a vignette to see. But this one was nice too.

Gary Keimig said...

Very nice work. I really like the way you are using pen and ink associated with other mediums. Nice feel and it just looks like you are having fun doing them.
God bless and keep it up

dominique eichi said...

Gary, Thank you for stopping by and leaving such a nice comment, I checked your work it's fabulous, I will go back. On this piece I did have fun, it felt so inviting there. God bless you too.

NAVAL LANGA said...

Are you on faceBook? If not be there. We can find there many persons of common interest.

Naval Langa
PAINTINGS GALLERIES-TONES OF COLOURS

dominique eichi said...

Naval , I am on facebook

Unknown said...

Wow! I'll have to look for a tombow (which means dragonfly in Japanese) pen and experiment with it. Thanks for posting a close up of your faux work. You are so gifted!

dominique eichi said...

Sheila, you will love those pens a bit expensive but with the coupons it should help. Thank for stopping by

C said...

ur very good! love your work

dominique eichi said...

C,
Thank you very much. I appreciate you stopping by.

Jane LaFazio said...

Hey Dominique, please do link to our san diego sketchcrawl group, so others can join us.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SanDiegoSketchCrawlers/

dominique eichi said...

Thanks Jane I had forgotten to do it on my blogs ,your right

Desiree's Designs said...

Hi there GF, I really love your artwork and I am so sorry I missed the sketch crawl, it looks like you had a great time! Hopefully next time!

dominique eichi said...

Hey Desiree, Thanks for stopping by . Sorry you missed the sketchcrawl that garden was great.

Debra Keirce said...

I like the shadows on this one...Your sketch club sounds fun!

dominique eichi said...

DEB, Yes it is, you should check out if there is one in the area you live in . it's fun to draw with others.

Cathy Gatland said...

Sounds like a wonderful day, and you produced a beautiful drawing - the light and shade, and hard and soft edges and lines are quite lyrical.

dominique eichi said...

Thank you Cathy. How nice to come by we did have fun.

Mona Diane Conner said...

Dominique, don't laugh, but this painting reminds me of "Night of the Iguana"! Did you ever see that movie?
It's a very atmospheric painting, nicely done.

dominique eichi said...

Mona, ah hah hahahah it's still funny, No I didn't see that movie if it's a horror one I don't watch them. but I can imagine the feel with the iguanas. Thank you the place did have a great feel to it. : )