Fence Line Pool, Margaree River
I'm trying to work with some of Olly's techniques for the trees. Also, as discussed in previous posts, working on how to indicate a thin fishing line in the air. In this case I tried to paint around the line and then added guache to make it more visible. It is not as successful as the scrathing out used in some of the other images.
This painting is of a new pool that was created by the installation of a massive rip rap bank which gives the opportunity to explore painting tightly intermeshed boulders as well as the trees behind and water and near bank. I'm happy with a lot of this, I think, but the line is really clunky and takes away from the rest.
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For what it's worth, I really like your Central PA painting -- barns are just right, aerial perspective works, etc.
You mention concentrting on drawing. I also started watercolor about 3 years ago but a friend and I had been taking weekly life drawing sessions for almost 10 years back in the '90s ino the '00s -- a way to get away from our families for a few hours and hang out. What with everything life brings, I gave it up and didn't think about it for 20 years. Thank goodness a lot of that muscle memory was still there when I took up watercolor.
So I agree, it is essential for the kind of painting that interests me. In the 18th and 19th centuries watercolors, after all, were often called 'drawings' rather than 'paintings'.