Memorial Auditorium at Sunset

After doing a series of quick sketches in graphite, charcoal, or watercolor like the one on yesterday's post, I can more easily decide which composition I prefer for the final work. Yesterday's sketch was a 10 x 8 watercolor and ink. From the group of those sketches, I chose a more elongated design at sunset. This oil painting is on a 36 x 24 inch canvas. Because I wanted a fuller, textured effect with different attack of paint in the columns, the greenery, the glass wall, and the sunset sky, I worked only in palette knife.

Beach - Sharing Shells...more ideas...

As artists begin thoughts on sketch pad or canvas, one idea leads to another. And in my search for just the right idea, concerning beach, families, surf, sky, this next idea fell into place on a 5 x 7 pastel board. With a sailboat in the distance, here are two figures sharing their finds in a quiet cove...shells across the sand. But there are still more ideas to try...