Showing posts with label Denali National Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Denali National Park. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

The Bear

It was hard to do a virtual trip to Denali National Park and not sketch some wildlife...so I searched for a reference to work with. This bear looked perfect for sketching quickly. I used watercolors, watercolor pencils, a colored pencil and some gouache in this. Anyway, I'm glad I wasn't up lose and personal with this guy.


 

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Denali National Park

 On Saturday I joined the virtual sketchers from the NYC Urban Sketchers. Our hosts and guides brought us to Denali National Park in Alaska. Once again we were provided a website that was full of information and photo references for anything there that you can imagine sketching. I've never visited Alaska but this definitely made me want to go. I started with a photo reference of a landscape with these gorgeous flowers called fireweed in the foreground. 


It is hard to think of Alaska without picturing the animals that live there, especially the bears.
 I loved this reference. I tried not to overwork it.