Saturday, June 5, 2010

The Tuscan Sky


I decided to experiment with a landscape picture that I took in Italy for a thank you card to my great aunt Alice rather than draw the sakura flowers (cherry blossoms). Those tiny flowers are really time consuming. These are six very small drawings on a 4 1/2 by 6 1/8 tinted canson paper, though I cropped off the bottom area that I didn't use. Different combinations of blue and white were used for the sky and varied greens for the landscape. For the darker areas in the trees I used black, very lightly. I also layered some of the colors. The bottom right has non-photo blue over white. My goal was to achieve a bright sky. I wanted my great aunt to feel the openness of the scenery and feel relaxed looking at it. I'm not sure if I accomplished that...

I'll post the final piece later. Perhaps I'll get it done by tonight.

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