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Frozen to the core: winter sketching around Vancouver

[Guest post by Michael Aceves in Vancouver, Canada] From time to time I travel away from Los Angeles for work. These are examples of sketches I did around Vancouver while working there last winter. My friend and I made a goal of heading out each weekend to draw/paint at different locations in the city. He worked in oil paints at an easel. Me, I kept it light: half a dozen pens, a sketchbook and a watercolor kit of my own making. (Above, Downtown during lunch.)

I typically start with a drawing pen and a few colored marker pens, and then do a pass with watercolor. This drawing, done from the fifth-floor balcony of the Moving Picture Company (MPC) on Hamilton Street, Vancouver, during my lunch breaks, shows it when I have completed a pass with markers and watercolor...

... and later on I added a little digital paint in areas where it needed a little attention.

This drawing of the city in late afternoon light was done from a similar vantage point, except looking about 30 degrees to the left.

On an early February afternoon I sat on the Maritime Museum Ferry Dock to do a sketch of the North Star of Herschel Island. Built in 1935, it is the last of the sailing Arctic fur trading ships and apparently is the only fully rigged ship in Canada, meaning that it crosses squaresails on each of its three masts.

In the mid afternoon the temperatures peaked around the low 40s fahrenheit (5-6C) and then quickly dipped into the 30s (around 0C) once the sun dropped low. I wore cotton mitts with the fingers cut off to keep my hands warm. Sitting cross-legged on the dock for over 90 minutes left my hands and legs stiff from the cold. As I packed up and started to leave, the owner of the North Star came out and asked to see my drawing. As we exchanged emails, my hands were so cold I had trouble holding a pen. The cold temperature combined with sitting over water, not moving for an extended period of time, seemed to freeze me to the core. I was relieved to see the museum still open and stepped inside to get my body temp back up to normal.

This view of Starboat Cove in Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver, was done on a very cold January day during a weekend sketch outing. We took to keeping a few chemical stick warmers in our pockets to keep our hands thawed. I often felt I was not getting enough sun during my time spent up north and was happy to return to sunny SoCal.

The city of Vancouver can be quite beautiful in the winter, but a bit chilly for outdoor drawing. Especially for a native southern Californian... who didn't own a proper winter jacket at the time.

Michael Aceves is a digital matte painter/concept artist based in Los Angeles who works in film and TV.

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