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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Summer Skies

Front seat sketching, on location and out of the wind. 
We are so used to dramatic skies here in the Pacific NW that it's been a challenge to be inspired with plain old boring blue skies for the past month. Even though I painted this watercolor to fulfill the Day 5 challenge for World Watercolor Month, I actually had to wait for day 20 before being inspired.
It finally did rain a little today. I drove about 5 minutes from home to park at a soccer field where a perfectly inspirational summer sky was waiting to be painted. Without any preliminary drawing I used my #10 Escoda travel brush and Prima watercolor set on 140lb Fabriano Artistico CP watercolor paper.
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4 comments:

  1. MK BuikeJuly 21, 2017 at 12:04 AM

    Beautiful. Like the auto studio, too.

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  2. MiataGrrlJuly 21, 2017 at 9:54 PM

    Wonderful clouds! You sure you don't want to put those wires in, though? ;-)

    - Tina

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    1. Michele CooperJuly 22, 2017 at 2:20 AM

      Thanks! I was tempted to put in the wires but decided against it. My concept was summer skies and I wanted to see how few shapes it would take to get the idea across.

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