I am always drawn to the beach and love sketching the dunes. This was done looking toward the Park Ranger Station at Smith Point Beach.
Joy Ting had us do mixed media flower studies for Sketchbook Revival. She suggested that if we are working with a floral collection it may help to focus on just part of the collection, so I cropped her photo reference and just worked on about 1/4 of the photo. She also had us do smaller sketches before doing a larger one to work out the placement and composition. I used pencil, watercolors, water-soluble inks, white ink, and oil pastels.
You have a fine touch for the dunes. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWell done on the flowers, too.
Ooow Smith points does it for me !
ReplyDeleteThe lead inn the little American flag, .. it's all fits very well.
Do you know work of Alberto Valentini a Italian painter living near the Dutch coast (Then Haque)
Have a look at his blog:
http://ilpittore.blogspot.com/