More sketches from the beach

Here are a few more sketches from our week at the beach. Our friend and traveling companion is an architect who is also an avid watercolor artist and photographer. Often on our trips a painting challenge will emerge where he and The Professor paint the same subject. This time we were inspired by an onion found in the local Piggly Wiggly. It is fun shopping with another artist who delights in the visual qualities of produce as much as I do. So when we came home from the grocery with this onion only because we thought it was beautiful, it became the painting challenge for this trip.

I wish I could show you Ken's artwork, but he doesn't have a website or blog - yet. I'm working on that. So you will just have to take my word for how wonderful his watercolor paintings are, and being an architect,  you can probably imagine just how well he draws buildings. Even enjoys the challenges of perspective and gets those lines down effortlessly. Not me. Here is my feeble attempt of the view from the deck of our rental beach cottage.

And finally, late one evening I just felt like painting something, even though I was tired from a day of playing (keeping the dogs under control) on the beach and hiking around Botany Bay. (Lots of inspiration for future works there!) So I did a few quick watercolor sketches of drift wood and a sponge-like thing found on the beach. Just watercolor, no drawing. In this case it was far easier for me to go at these objects with a brush than to mess around getting a drawing down first. Some days are like that.