Painting Four - Blast at Castle Island

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Well, I was right:  It was lousy out today so I opted to go to the studio and paint a watercolor version of the pencil drawing I did at Castle Island yesterday.  It is so much easier painting from a study like this.  Ideally, I would prefer to do a quick value and comp study and paint on site.  There is definitely an element missing when just painting from a sketch in the studio.  In this case, since everything was so fresh in my mind I think I was able to capture the spirit of the scene.  I wish that I exaggerated the bend of the trees more and the pine tree is a difficult species to paint from memory but I did the best I could.  I learned a lot from the painting I did a week ago which helped with the shadows of the grass and road; one more benefit of painting similar themes and painting often is that you can reuse techniques and colors. 

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