Coronado View

I completed this watercolor on 4/24/10 and it is a view of Point Loma from the beach on Coronado Island. It involved learning to layer the paint and use contrasts of light and dark. My instructor John Yato is teaching me about composition as well as things I've found difficult in the past: oceans and rocks.

Windy Sea

I just started up with a new watercolor instructor and this was his first assignment for me -- I did this one on April 7, 2010. It's been about nine months since I've painted so it was great to get a little painting done in one session. I'm still at the stage where painting waves is daunting but my instructor broke it down into a simple series of lines shaded one way or another. I'm anxious to try this with multiple colors next.