Tonight's virtual #pleinAirpril is a photo taken by @snehasisnama of an aging but charming old house on a Kolkata street.

...Closest we're getting to a real plein-air sketch, I suppose!

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Third virtual #pleinAirpril is, I think, Moo Deng!

I wasn't planning on adding much detail to the water from the start, and that helped a lot with maintaining energy levels. I still kinda feel like I should've, though, the water looks too plain...

Finally broke out my pet favorite hatchwork brush, too!

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My 2nd #pleinairpril2026 , it's a photostudy from: https://lemmy.world/post/45104255
I have done it on our #LiveYetVirtual stream on Youtube.

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Second photostudy for #pleinAirpril was Milou the dachshund, from: https://lemmy.world/post/45104255

Managed to not get overwhelmed by the grass and fur strands this time! Adorable doggo solves all problems!

...Good thing I'm too lazy to try to draw a live dog IRL!

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Nichole Photo Study

I forgot how gorgeous looking a monochrome color tone can be. Most monochrome I ever run into are grayscale... and those I appreciate tremendously. But color monochrome hits differently than a grayscale does. There's an emotional undertone that can be encoded, which isn't as apparent in a grayscale. Imagine this piece as a red monochrome rather than blue... how would that feel to you?

Photo reference is by Nichole Sebastian from Pexels.com.

Art timelapse can be seen @ https://youtu.be/mn6QYLwYnY8

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I had such high hopes for our first #pleinAirpril going in. Instantly got overwhelmed with detail, and gave up on how I was planning to tackle them. Even kept the undersketch, then rushed to the end.

Can't help but feel I didn't use to give in this easily a few years ago, especially after reposting a lot of them recently...

[ Original photo of "The Trikitty" taken taken by @titanraj's younger brother ]

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