This is the last batch of drawings from a trip to Provincetown last month.
After trying to draw moving water over and over, it was nice to switch to leaves and grasses, which hold relatively still. Â This one was ink-wash (using the rotring pen and its non-waterproof ink, then a brush and water to create the wash):
Switching to watercolors. Â Not very happy with the result. Â I wanted to draw the grasses, but somehow got hung up on the “background,” the walkway with its flat stones. Â The only part of this I really like is the yellow-ish grass running down the right-center of the picture.
I decided that if what I wanted to draw was the tall grasses, I wasn’t obligated to draw any background, I could just leave the white page. Â Better:
And then decided to use pencil a bit, I guess it freed me up from drawing as much with the brush, and I could just use the watercolors to color:
Not sure if this one was finished, but it’ll have to be:
