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Some paintings far surpass my expectations and some are scary awful, but it's always fun.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Plein Air-Santa Cruz

Last Thursday the SCVWS plein air painters braved record-breaking winds at the Mission and Holy Cross Church in Santa Cruz. My first painting of the mission will remain incommunicado, due to a perspective issue. After lunch I did this pen and ink drawing from the church grounds, looking back toward the plaza. I added washes later. It's on a 6" x 14" Arches cold-press block. I used a set of black Faber Castell Pitt pens with 4 different nib sizes. Love the way the redwood foliage turned out. It could use some shadows, though.
 We had a good time-the docent let us go into the walled garden to have lunch, which was fortunate or all of the treats we brought to share would have been blown miles away.

2 comments:

  1. Janice, this is a very neat ink and watercolor piece. Great perspective on this. Sounds like another challenging day of Extreme Art! I wish I could have been there -- I believe I was heading off to NYC.

    Thanks for checking in on the Rosicrucian post. I need to clean that one up a bit, but I need time away from it.

    As always, I just love painting outdoors with other artists, especially our congenial group.

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