Sunday, April 25, 2010

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.
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