{"id":16080,"date":"2023-04-17T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2023-04-17T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:55:55","slug":"watercolor-sketch-of-building-in-gold-rush-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/17\/watercolor-sketch-of-building-in-gold-rush-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolor Sketch of Building in Gold Rush Country"},"content":{"rendered":"![\"Watercolor](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\")
Every once in a while I like to paint a small, quick watercolor which is more like a sketch or study.\u00a0 In this case the subject is an old stone building under renovation sitting on a hilly grassland in the Sierra Foothills.\u00a0 It was something I saw across the roadway from our trailer spot just south of Angels Camp, California.\u00a0 Something about it intrigued me–the structure was rough, definitely old, and in disrepair to say the least.\u00a0 The metal roof and its supporting framing members were missing, and there was a heavy timber scaffold out front to aid in the renovation.\u00a0 It was an opportunity to show a stark, brutal historic structure in its bare-bones state, with its roof collapsed, and some of its stone eroded and missing–but nonetheless on its way back to better times.\u00a0 The window openings were black as coal, and the shadows very strong in the mid-morning sunlight.\u00a0 As a painting, there were basically three components–the structure, the field, and the fence….The shadows would define the spatial relationship between all three.\u00a0 There was an abstract nature to the setting, because the hilly grassland was homogeneous and without much definition, due to the young, vibrant growth of the early spring grasses.\u00a0 I painted that first, then the structure, then the fence.\u00a0 Tried to keep it simple and true to its initial impression when I originally spotted this house on the hill.\u00a0 There’s a simple flatness to the overall composition, and to each area of the painting–very minimal differentiation within the grassy field, or the stone walls, just enough to describe the material and convey some human scale to the image.\u00a0 The original is 5″ x 8″ on watercolor paper and took about an hour and a half start to finish.\u00a0 This artwork is hand-drawn and painted in the watercolor technique by Jeffrey Michael George, Architectural Illustrator.\u00a0 Jeffrey lives in Chico, and creates many architectural illustrations for projects located in northern California and the San Francisco bay area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every once in a while I like to paint a small, quick watercolor which is more like a sketch or study.\u00a0 In this case the subject is an old stone building under renovation sitting on a hilly grassland in the Sierra Foothills.\u00a0 It was something I saw across the roadway from our trailer spot just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10,11,1],"tags":[17,51,80,86,118],"class_list":["post-16080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural-illustration","category-architectural-rendering","category-personal-fun-stuff","category-perspective-drawing","category-uncategorized","tag-architectural","tag-illustration","tag-perspective","tag-rendering","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Every once in a while I like to paint a small, quick watercolor which is more like a sketch or study.\u00a0 In this case the subject is an old stone building under renovation sitting on a hilly grassland in the Sierra Foothills.\u00a0 It was something I saw across the roadway from our trailer spot just south of Angels Camp, California.\u00a0 Something about it intrigued me–the structure was rough, definitely old, and in disrepair to say the least.\u00a0 The metal roof and its supporting framing members were missing, and there was a heavy timber scaffold out front to aid in the renovation.\u00a0 It was an opportunity to show a stark, brutal historic structure in its bare-bones state, with its roof collapsed, and some of its stone eroded and missing–but nonetheless on its way back to better times.\u00a0 The window openings were black as coal, and the shadows very strong in the mid-morning sunlight.\u00a0 As a painting, there were basically three components–the structure, the field, and the fence….The shadows would define the spatial relationship between all three.\u00a0 There was an abstract nature to the setting, because the hilly grassland was homogeneous and without much definition, due to the young, vibrant growth of the early spring grasses.\u00a0 I painted that first, then the structure, then the fence.\u00a0 Tried to keep it simple and true to its initial impression when I originally spotted this house on the hill.\u00a0 There’s a simple flatness to the overall composition, and to each area of the painting–very minimal differentiation within the grassy field, or the stone walls, just enough to describe the material and convey some human scale to the image.\u00a0 The original is 5″ x 8″ on watercolor paper and took about an hour and a half start to finish.\u00a0 This artwork is hand-drawn and painted in the watercolor technique by Jeffrey Michael George, Architectural Illustrator.\u00a0 Jeffrey lives in Chico, and creates many architectural illustrations for projects located in northern California and the San Francisco bay area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"