Settings and landscapes are another subject I don't paint very often, so these Make Art That Sells course prep assignments are really pushing me out of my comfort zone. Seems as though everyone is conspiring to do so recently! Well, I'm welcoming challenges, so I took this one up with much amusement and a good heart, and did a couple of rough sketches. Above is one of them, and below is another:
And I finally remembered to take some photos of the process ... well, of the second one anyway. Here they are:
I'm going to declare myself quite satisfied with my rough attempts, for now at least. If I intend illustrating for children's books I shall have to practice loads more I suspect! Well, am certainly not scared of trying out new things, or of change in general, so we shall have quite a pleasurable ride ahead ... Cheers.
Drawn and painted with Staedtler pencils and Winsor and Newton watercolours in a square Pink Pig sketchbook.