More from Sao Paulo

I am still making marker sketches. I want to be as well prepared as I can to SD.
I made these ones in different situations, using the same technique I've been using in the past months - working with masses of values, trying to 'suggest' details (instead of describing them) and going always from the whole to the specific.
It's a long journey...I've been studying some masters from the 19th Century, like Sargent, Sorolla and some russian painters, such as Isaac Levitan, Fyodor Vasyliev, and I always got amazed about them.
How realist their paintings are, and yet so full of abstraction and personality!!
The word "abstraction" should be understand here, "not as non-representational art, but the original sense of the word, now somewhat lost, meaning to distill the essence of something" (Charley Parker, from Lines and Colors blog). I love this statement.

Yesterday I did a trial of my workshop here in Sao Paulo. I chose some friends to help me and they gave me interesting follow-ups, which I am certainly considering to improve my presentation. It was great!
I made a 30 minutes sketch at the end, using a combination of pale indigo and shades of grey. Actually I did others sketches like this. Probably you have seen them at UsK blog, but I am posting them again here.