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Atlanta skyline night pen & ink drawing
Atlanta Skyline Pen & Ink Drawing at night by artist Stephen F. Condren.

Atlanta Skyline Pen & Ink Night Drawings And Prints

Atlanta Skyline #029K pen & ink night drawings is an article about Atlanta skyline art, written by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, at Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering prints and JPEG & PDF scans, which are on sale at low discount prices.

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Atlanta Skyline Pen & Ink Drawing Of Midtown At Night #025Z

Atlanta skyline #859A pen & ink drawing is popular because of it's view of Piedmont Park and Lake Clara Meer.

This article is about Atlanta skyline #025Z pen & ink drawing, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. This article is about my pen & ink night time drawing of Lake Clara Meer at Piedmont Park, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Skyline Pen & Ink Drawing Key Points:

  1. Have all of your art supplied and gear in place.
  2. Bring lighting to allow you to work.
  3. Spend a long time looking at the city lights to understand the contour of the buildings.

It is not a common practice to do landscape drawings at night. However, if you are only in town for a short time take advantage of this. It is my practice to do as much as I can in the short time that I am usually in places.

It is amazing just how much that you can see at night when you have set up your easel or table. There are many kinds of lighting fixtures to choose from. One you have your lighting in place it is quiet easy to work. The flip side of the coin however, is that you need to keep your working light at a lower than usual level of brightness because you need to be able to see out into the dark and thus your pupils need to dilate to take in that light. If you have bright lights on around you, then you will not be able to focus on things out in the darkness.

Cross hatching is king! In this pen & ink drawing cross hatching has become indispensable due to the darkness. However, you cannot let the darkness take over. If you make too many hatch marks then the drawing becomes to dense and then ruined. Remember it is not easy to see in the dark and then you have to take into account your eye adjustment between viewing the site and refocusing in the brighter light of your easel.

As dark as the scene was I have made the trees light so as to create a negative space to hold the composition together. There is an abundance of light in the center of the lagoon as well as on the building in the background. The deep darkness of the center sky behind the skyline makes for a wonderful perspective drawing without vanishing points.

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Pen & Inks Of Atlanta Skyline

Atlanta Skyline Drawings #160Z

Stephen F. Condren ~ Artist

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago ~ BFA

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Atlanta Skyline Pen & Ink Drawing Of Downtown At Night #020Z

Atlanta skyline #825A pen & ink drawing is popular because of it's downtown nighttime scene.

This article is about Atlanta skyline #020Z night pen & ink drawing of downtown at night, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. This article is shows the beauty of Atlanta, Georgia, at night.

Skyline Pen & Ink Drawing Key Points:

  1. Find a good spot to sit that offers a maximum view of the city.
  2. Have all of your art supplies at hand.
  3. Focus on the city night lights since that is all you have to work with to ferret out the image of the building.

It must always be remembered that we are creating a work of are and not reproducing photographic or CAD images. The point of this task is to express our humanity through lines.

When drawing in the dark be as careful with your own clothing as you are with the paper for it gets difficult to draw in the dark especially when you are highly focused on a subject. Be sure to keep looking back and forth so that you do not slip or miss points. It is very easy to mess up and blur images, thus making you start over again.

I usually commence my pen & ink drawings by doing a quick pencil sketch of the scene on the paper first, then I apply the ink. I do not hover over the drawing but I do make my lines rather quickly, as we are in the open air and not at a drafting table or studio desk.

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Pen & Inks Of Atlanta Skyline

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Stephen F. Condren ~ Artist

312-303-0207

School of the Art Institute of Chicago ~ BFA

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Atlanta Skyline Pen & Ink Drawing Of Downtown At Night #019Z

Atlanta skyline #824A pen & ink cityscape drawing is popular because of it's view of downtown at night.

This article is about Atlanta skyline #019Z pen & ink drawing at night, which is for sale at discount with prints by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery, offering JPEG & PDF scans. This article is about my pen & ink drawing of the downtown Atlanta, Georgia, skyline at night.

Skyline Pen & Ink Drawing Key Points:

  1. Ware a sweater or jacket as it gets cool at night.
  2. Bring all of your art supplies and keep them on hand.
  3. Carefully study the night city lights as they are the key to getting the delineation of the structures which are obscured by darkness.

The difficult task at hand here is the competent rendering of the skyline at night. Due to the ease of making everything black you can ruin your work permanently. It is like comparing a Mozart symphony with a Wagnerian opera. In the Mozart symphony you have a clear and transparent score with a focus on the musical line. Whereas, with the Wagnerian opera you have so much going on in the score that it is easy to lose things in the chaos! The same holds true here, do not get “Wagnerian” and clutter you drawing with cross hatching but rather be more like Mozart and let the elegance of the line gently flow.

Pen & Inks Of Atlanta Skyline Link:

Pen & Inks Of Atlanta Skyline

Atlanta Skyline Drawings #160Z

Stephen F. Condren ~ Artist

312-303-0207

School of the Art Institute of Chicago ~ BFA