A brand new razor blade really sharpens pencils beautifully. The trick is to then avoid getting any blood on the drawing.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Left Wall, Great Head, Acadia
Where I’m drawing from…
Buongiorno a tutti i miei amici italiani.
These days, I’m setting up my easel all the way out on the tip of Great Head. Acadia is packed with people right now. In a few days, they’ll head back home but lately it’s a little crowded out on the shoreline. The morning hours provide a good window of opportunity to work before the visitors hit the trails. This is a new site for me and I can not believe that it’s taken me twenty years to get around to exploring this area.
It’s supposed to rain tomorrow. Studio painting…
Here’s a photo of the really, really cool painting site:
Great Head Spruce, back at it…
Saturday figure @ Waterfall Arts
Bluff evening, low tide, final.
Great Head Spruce
Hunter’s Cliff, redux.
Reworked this one today…
This drawing is of a site that I love but find very taxing to climb up into. A field of wet, rockweed covered granite boulders and a few steep passages make getting up to this vantage point a bit daunting. I discovered this site years ago, when my vestibular system was more or less intact. I’d not dared climb up there again until just this summer. I hope to work this into a larger painting.
Great Head Spruce
Bluff, evening, low tide.
I am a couple of sessions into this drawing. The work can only take place when the tide is low in the evening. The site is very, very nice and I hope to get the drawing fully fleshed out and move onto an oil study, a larger drawing and ultimately a larger studio painting. That’s the plan, any way…