"of the January sun"

                          11x15

We have been looking at Charles Demuth in one of my art classes, and our assignment was to try his techniques.

I selected a photo I had taken in Lewes, DE, and cropped it down to just roofs.

When I did my drawing, below, I thought it needed something ...

Then looking through my Demuth books I saw his painting Trees and Barns, Bermuda (1917), which has all these barely-painted tree trunks appearing and disappearing.

I added a few trunks to my drawing but really could not get the speckled quality his trunks had; nor could I make the ends of my branches just fade away as he does!

The plan was to blot the washes, like Demuth does--but I discovered it was very hard (in fact I wasn't able to do it at all!) to achieve the effect he gets. My washes were too wet or too dry!

I wish I hadn't gotten so dark with some of my midtones and that I had left more white.

We'll see what my classmates say Tuesday!