Tag: Watercolor House Portraits #147K

This article is about watercolor house portrait #269Z, of a property sold by Anne Ferrante, Realtor, Kienlen Lattmann Sotheby’s International Realty, 68 North Finley Avenue, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920, and written by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery ~ the house portrait is done first as a pencil drawing and then a pen & ink, which comes with JPEG & PDF scans for making note cards. Congratulations Anne Ferrante!

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Property Sold

220 Talmage Road Mendham, New Jersey 07945 United States

Realtor

Anne Mayo Ferrante, ABR, PSA

Sales Associate

Kienlen Lattmann Sotheby’s International Realty

68 North Finley Avenue

Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

908.696.8600 (o)

973.214.9841 (c)

aferrante@klsir.com

http://anneferrante.klsir.com

Pencil Drawing For Watercolor House Portrait #269Z

• Clinker Stylus Sketch

This is the pencil sketch or stylus sketch, that begins the drawing. I have done a nice layout of the drawing in relation to the landscape and the trees behind. I made special not of the large tree on the lawn to the right, so as not to let it overcome the right side of the landscape.

Pen & Ink Drawing

• Stylus Sketch

The pen & ink drawing, which is a stylus sketch, is carefully done over the pencil sketch as a guide for the ink. All changes, if any, must be made at the time of the pencil sketch because the pen & ink is merciless! When the ink touches the paper that is it, no going back.

If you look closely you can see the lines of the pencil in the background, under the house, and through the trees.

Watercolor

• Painting

The watercolor rendering or house painting, is the final step. I have made if very clear to have the colors show through. I do not want the paint to look “worked”. Watercolor are at their best when they look fresh.

I have made sure that the ink lines show nicely for the tree trunks and blend in with the leaves. I did not make use of any hatching or cross-hatching in this rendering because the house is very wide and thin.

Hatching

If I had hatched the eaves it would have made the walls look too close to the brick below. Also, in the covered porch I did not us hatching either, because there were too many lines being used to show the curved of the door and entrance. Putting down more lines would have caused confusion. I did, however, shade the area under the entry with a nice lavender tone, but no ink lines.

Bird Bath & Fence

To keep in the charm I made sure to include the fence. Not much is showing, but that is all that you need to bring in the charm. The birdbath makes for the cherry on the cake!

Scans

• JPEG & PDF

As a follow-up after the closing for making note cards.

Condren Galleries Ltd.

• Fine Arts Gallery

Condren Galleries is pleased to have been to participate in the execution of watercolor house portrait #269Z for Realtor Anne Ferrante.

Stephen F. Condren

• Artist

As an artist I have made watercolor house portrait #269Z a staple of my architectural rendering works.

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Watercolor house portrait #269Z with pen & ink drawings, prints, and by artist Stephen F. Condren at Condren Galleries.

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Watercolor House Portrait #263Z

This article is about watercolor house portrait #264Z, of a property sold by Broker/Realtor Ray Wade, owner of Legacy Texas Properties in Houston, Texas, and written by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery ~ the house portrait is done first as a pencil drawing and then a pen & ink, which comes with JPEG & PDF scans for making note cards. Congratulations Ray Wade!

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Property Sold

4015 Aspenwood, Richmond, Texas, 77406

Realtor

Ray Wade, CRS

Broker/Owner
Legacy Texas Properties

Phone: (832) 531-2011
Email: raywade@legacytexasproperties.com
Web: www.legacytexasproperties.com

Pencil Drawing For Watercolor House Portrait #264Z

• Clinker Stylus Sketch

The pencil drawing, which is a clinker stylus sketch, is the foundation of a house portrait and it can be seen under the pen & ink in the image below under Pen & Ink Drawings. It is against aesthetic practice to erase any work done by the artist, no matter how small. The same holds true for house portraits, which are Fine Art as they are private commissions. Each house portrait is a work of Fine Art and must be treated with utmost respect. In the case of pencil sketches that I do for my clients, I only erase the writing of the note. So if you look at the note in the pen & ink below you will see my hand writing.

Because I am going to write the note in ink, the pencil is merely a guide and not part of the work of art. If you look at the watercolor below you an see that my pencil notes are gone. However, if you look closely you can see the pencil sketching under the house and the landscaping, that is good artwork!

Pen & Ink Drawing

• Stylus Sketch

The pen & ink drawing, which is a stylus sketch, is the blood and guts of the house portrait. Nothing can be hidden from the all might pen! Because the pen & ink lines are so bold and clear you have to make sure that they are correct from the start. Most importantly, pen & inks are very demanding and very unforgiving. If you make a mistake it is there forever. There is no use in using “white out” or other slick patches to “fix” the error, for when the watercolor come it will expose all of that folly! When you do pen & ink you have to do it correctly.

Picture Plane

The picture plane is the paper, or the TV screen, or a movie screen. This is the surface that everything that your eye sees rests upon. In the rendering below you can see that I have left space for the trees. Thus, when I drew the eave lines I stopped and made a pause and then continued, leaving room for the tree trunk. This hold true for the bushes and other objects in front of the house. The use is that any object in front gets priority seating. Thus, the bushes in the front of the yard get the highest priority as they are in front of everything.

Shade & Shadow

Because the nature of pen & ink is linear, they express form and motion through hatching and cross-hating. If you look at the front porch you can see a series of short vertical lines going along from the left to right. Please note that I have left space for the columns. If I had just kept making the vertical lines through the columns then it would have ruined the depth of field for the porch, flattened the image, and ruined the drawing. Hatching makes a pen & ink drawing strong!

Watercolor

• Painting

The watercolor of the rendering is the final step in doing the house portrait. Watercolor like pen & ink is very demanding and very unforgiving. When the brush hits the paper there is no turning back, what you see is what you get! And since your client has paid for this commission it had better be good!

Freshness

The most important element in a watercolor is freshness. You should be able to smell the roses! When you try and work the brush over the paper the drawing will immediately fall into ruin. You have to be fresh, clean, and clear when applying watercolors. You cannot undo what is wrong. It is better to live with error than ruin the work of art over a detail. Every work of art in history, form Leonardo Da Vinci to Picasso has errors in every single work that they have done, and I have as well.

Sunset

The time of year in the watercolor is winter and the time of day is sunset. I have put a suggestion of crimson in the yellow sky to give the warmth of the evening sun to the rendering. A bit of lavender sets the tone of the evening sky and a touch of green in the trees gives hope for spring that is almost here.

Scans

• JPEG & PDF

As a follow-up after the closing, every good Realtor know that you have to stay in touch with your clients. A good way to do this is to come offering something. So at a later time that the Realtor deems appropriate he or she can call upon their client with a nice box of note cards or stationery with the watercolor of their home!

All house portraits come with scans in JPEG format. You can email this scan to any local printer and they can make note card or stationery at your request of watercolor house portrait #264Z.

Condren Galleries Ltd.

• Fine Arts Gallery

Condren Galleries is my place for art and it is here that I offer paintings and watercolor of any subject. Because I have done house portraits and architectural rendering for my entire career and I am pleased to offer this to all of my clients.

Stephen F. Condren

• Artist

As an artist I can do figure drawings and paintings as well and portraits of people, the range is great and I love my work. I am honored to do watercolor house portrait #264Z for Ray Wade.

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Watercolor house portrait #264Z, pencil drawing, pen & ink, JPEG & PDF scans, Condren Galleries.

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Watercolor House Portraits #261Z

This is about Watercolor house portraits #263Z, pen & ink drawings, which contains two renderings done for Realtor Megan Beechen, and written by artist Stephen F. Condren, BFA-SAIC, of Condren Galleries, a Fine Arts Gallery. Congratulations Megan Beechen!

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Properties Sold

544 Regal Lane, Bolingbrook, IL

1050 N. Ashbury, Bolingbrook, IL

Realtor

Megan Beechen
Real Estate Broker, Realty Executives Elite

Pencil Drawing For Watercolor House Portrait #623Z

• Stylus Sketch

The very beginning of all house portraits starts with a fine line stylus sketch or drawing. Just like in Real Estate, so too in art, you have to have a foundation! The sketch is the basement for all practical purposes. As you can see from the image below the sketch does not offer much refined detail, in the same manner a basement is unfinished. Because the sketch is the starting point it is crucial for laying out the correct size, scale, and details of the house to be rendered.

This fine home is a two story house in traditional style. There is a bay window in the living room and a nice covered porch at the entry. The garage is attached to the side of the home. The second floor is the same size as the first and there is no third floor outside of an attic. The landscaping is handsome in that it offers a lovely stone wall to secure the boundaries of the front lawn and gardens. There is a large birch tree directly in front of the entry and a large maple on the right side of the property. These trees are both enclosed in the stone wall framework.

It is amazing how much information you can get form this simple sketch! Now the next step is to put the pen & ink to work.

Pen & Ink Drawing

• Stylus Sketch

The pen & ink drawings or stylus sketch is very demanding and also very unforgiving. When it come to drawing this is where you separate that men from the boys for you have to know what you are doing. There no room for error, when you put the pen & ink on the paper it is final, so you have to be sure that it is correct from the moment that you start.

Sketch As A Guide

Because pen & inks are so demanding you can appreciate the need for a sketch as a guide. To draw pen & ink on a blank sheep of paper is a whole different ballgame. As an artist, my clients demand and expect the best, as they are entitled to. These house portraits not only cost money they are a statement to the Realtor’s client. Therefore, it is serious business to do things right, and from the start.

As a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I am well educated on how to approach a work of art, which every house portrait it. Further, each house portrait is a commissioned work of art, thus the client is taking a risk that the rendering will be what he or she is expecting.

MLS Images

My approach to pen & ink renderings is to carefully take the pen and look at both the MLS list image and the paper. The funny thing about all of this is that I draw very quickly! It is difficult to explain, but as I see the image on the MLS page I only have moments to grasp that form and carry it over to the paper with my pen. For that reason, the longer that I take the more that I will forget. I need to move quickly. I carefully outline the entire structure and then start to fill in the detail.

Picture Plane

The thing that I draw first is the landscaping and any other object in the front of the picture plane. If you look at the pen & ink below you can see that the birch trees out front are going right up and not cut through with lines from the eaves of the house. This is because I had to layout the area for the trees before hand and leave that space blank for the trees. The same holds true for bushes and other object in front of the house.

Watercolor House Portrait

• Home Painting

Most importantly, the final step is applying the watercolor to make the house portrait or home painting. Just like the pen & inks, watercolor is also very demanding and very unforgiving. Once the brush touches the paper that is it! You cannot erase and when you attempt to rub it out with the paint brush the watercolor then look “worked”, a very bad and undesirable thing. Watercolor have to be fast and fresh.

Because you can see from my brush strokes below, they are worked together as I apply the paint. I put a few colors from my pallet on to the brush and then work them onto the paper. I never go over it and work it out. Light, fresh, and fast is the key to success!

Condren Galleries

• Fine Arts Gallery

I am honored that Megan commissioned me to do her renderings and I look forward to working with her again.

Note Cards and Housewarming Gifts

• JPEG & PDF Scans

Note cards and stationery as well as many other things can be made from the scans that I email to the Realtor. Simply email the scan to any local print shop and they can produce what ever you want. Scans are available JPEG & PDF formats.

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Watercolor house portrait #263Z

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