Trip up the Gorge

In July, John and I drove up the Gorge to do some hiking and so I could do some sketching. This was my first sketching expedition since the RS Workshop so I wanted to try my new skills. We walked to a beautiful waterfall that I thought about sketching but my courage failed me. I did this log lodged against a rock instead. You can see at the top of the page how I did some thumbnail sketches to figure out my composition first. I also tried out color mixtures in an effort to match colors in the the scene.

We stopped at a viewpoint on the way home on the way home, and I did this sketch of the scene while John read.