Here's a failed drawing of Glacier Peak, and some studies I did afterward to look for a brush stroke more evocative of evergreens, and one where I kinda got it right. Now to fix the composition and tone. (my lived experience of the mountains is that everything is 100% saturated all the time, but I don't think that works as a painting approach) A lot of drawing feels like completely failing all the time, which typically doesn't get posted.
The beach and the ocean and a full moon.
7x7 watercolor on paper
#pelican #tentacle #seascape #landscape #art #mastoart #drawing #blacklagoon #watercolor #painting #beach #beachart #moon #paynesgray #alwaysdrawmonsters
The first multiday backpacking trip I ever went on was 20 miles of coast in the olympic national park. It's still one of my favorites. If you go, chances are, you'll see a lot of moody sunsets, not to say rain.
7" x 7", watercolor on paper
#sunset #watercolor #olympiccoast #wildernesscoast #seascape #drawing #watercolorsketch #sketch #art #pacificnorthwest #pacificnorthwesttrail #hikerart
A dog portrait commission. Watercolor on paper. 4"x6ish"
#art #goldendoodle #dogart #tinydog #watercolor #drawing #painting #dogportrait
A painting of some pelicans flying just above the water. The wave pushes air in front of it, and they sort of surf along on it.
#pelican #morning #beach #surfing #drawing #art #watercolor #painting #shore #shorebirds #pinkandblue #frenchultramarine #quinacridoneviolet #seascape
Is pink and blue still cool? Or maybe outrun? Everyone likes a liminal space, and the shore at dawn is like "I heard you liked liminal spaces, so we put some liminal colors in your liminal time in your liminal space, so now you can be between two things while you are between two things. Also there are pelicans."
#pinkandblue #seascape #waves #seabird #watercolor #art #drawing #painting #bisexuallighting #beach #beachart #liminal #ocean #landscape #pretty
Some more drawings of the shore. I like how the more more I lose the horizon the more abstract they seem. Anyway. Water color on paper, 7"x7"
#seascape #landscape #watercolor #drawing #painting #art #waves #shore #blue #contemporaryrealism #littlesquaredrawings #majahua #playamajahua
I reworked the previous drawing. The clouds were too annoying. Now they are still loose and abstract, but at least the clouds at the top read as closer than the clouds near the horizon. It's all a little more stormy.
#watercolor #watercolorpainting #edit #drawing #seascape #splash #art #shorebirds
Some birds at the beach.
#watercolorsketch #playamajahua #troncones #seascape #landscape #art #watercolor #drawing #beachart
View of Playa Majahua
Basically, I'm working on seascapes right now. A few days ago I noticed that I don't know how to draw them, so...
I should do a series of bad advice for artists. It'd be things like "always draw what you don't know how to draw," "avoid right angles," "color isn't important," and "representational art is for liars." Probably it would need to be a video series...
#playamajahua #majahua #beach #seascape #watercolor #landscape #painting #drawing #learntodraw #art #mastoart
