Dune Painting
August 11th, 2009
6″ x 8″ Dune Study
Here is the little painting I did this morning out at Grayton Beach State Park. This park is a painters paradise with the contrast of the dunes, the colors in the grasses and the lake on the north side of the dunes. Just over the dunes is the beach.
I started with the shadows on this one because they were the only area that I was fairly confident of the color (blueish-purple) and it turned out to be fairly effective. One of the struggles of painting on location is that you must always leave out the majority of what you see and stick to the main values shapes and colors that drew you to the motif. Toward the end of this painting it was very tempting to start painting in all the individual pieces of grass but I made myself stop and I’m glad that I did.
I will be going back to the park late this afternoon to try and do two more studies.
