New sketch - Camino Cielo
As Don Draper puts it beautifully,
"Nostalgia.
It's delicate...but potent.
In Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound.
It's a twinge in your heart...
Far more powerful than memory alone.
This device isn't a space ship.
It's a time machine.
It goes backwards, forwards.
It takes us to a place where we ache to go again."
Finally finished this sketch! Started the outline back in December but the challenge to portray the grandeur of this view from 3000 feet high was just too daunting. The magnificent mountain range, the tiny city of Santa Barbara in the distance, the Pacific ocean, ...the wisp of clouds streaming across the sky, like wings. Camino Cielo, "Road to Heaven". It really did feel like we were standing on top of the world. I still remember so vividly.
I think it's a decent attempt in the end, though! I've been really enjoying making pencil sketches from photographs, to work on my shading skills but also to enjoy this calm, perhaps bittersweet feeling.
Here's the original photo to better appreciate the glory of the view. <3
Also, well it's summer and I'm catching up on my TV watching!
