Sunday, June 27, 2021

plein air: north cape may

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Did a little plein air painting with my friend Gina yesterday afternoon.
My "value" sketch wasn't much help with the values here: there's not much to them. But it did help me simplify a riot of dune grass and scrub into some discrete shapes that I could handle.


Another still life from my first watercolor class: from a lesson on glazes. I rarely--hardly ever!--use glazes, but I kind of like the effect.
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2 comments:

  1. RH Carpenter12:25 PM

    Really like the dunes and water painting. I just started another online course on landscapes and our first assignment is to draw and then paint value studies of the photos we are going to use. I never do value studies but often my paintings turn out better if I remember to do them as preliminaries so…another reminder to use all those tools available before even painting!

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  2. laura6:25 PM

    Thank you, Rhonda. Yes, I am finding a little thinking prior to the painting helps!😄

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