Painting in the Garden
A beautiful day to sit in the back yard with a friend and paint, catch up on news, laugh, look through each other's sketchbooks, and look forward to a wonderful summer of painting. After a long gray winter, early June is SO promising!The watercolor sketch on the right was done as a quick, ink, contour sketch. The one on left left was drawn in pencil first, then the watercolor was added, and the ink was done last. The sketch on the left took a lot longer to do than the one on the right, but I enjoyed getting lost in the slow deliberate process. I usually like to do my sketchbook watercolors quickly, but there's a time and place for slow and deliberate.
The deer have been devouring the asters in my cutting garden. The hoof prints barely miss the other plants. I'm afraid what they don't eat will get trampled - although from the looks of the prints they are being careful. Gee, thanks.