Category: Landscape Sketches
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Cannon Beach
We visited our good friends, Kelly and Mike, last October in Portland, OR. During the trip, Kerry and I took some hikes in Ecola State Park and along Cannon Beach. It was a beautiful stretch of coast. These are a couple of sketches I did on the hikes.
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Hobbit Hill
Another plein air painting on a hillside near my studio that my husband and I always joke is our own hobbit hill…
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The Cove
Working to improve my efficiency with colors and values, I have been working on these smaller plein air paintings. I want to be able to quickly and effectively give a sense of the space of a scene.
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Stand
Here is another little plein air painting I completed this summer at Spring Mill State Park in Indiana. It was a hot, humid, 90-degree day, hence the intensity of the light on the field behind this stand of trees.
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Tuolumne Meadows
The work starts with graphite sketches where I find I can more easily design compositions using the small scale and a pencil. Using a grid helps me to transfer the lines that I want to the large canvas and not lose the the grace of the sketch.