Placing bigger shapes on dunes

 

For the "dune" painting, I'm still trying to place bigger shapes on the dunes. 

The vegitation is the most difficult to determine the shapes without painting leaves. Yet want to make it look like vegitation. And the most importantly color shift and value shift need to be painted in right way even in this early stage, because it's all about this painting.

NorCal Seagull

 I actually started this paining probably close to a month ago. Haven't touched it a while until today.

Before start defining the shape of the main subject, obviously the gull, I wanted to determine the entire atmosphere, overcast ocean scene. The background is just thin underpainting but actually capturing the gloomy day quite well.

It was more than three years ago when I took this shot on my way driving back from Monterey, CA. I don't remember the exact place but I called the gull as "NorCal Seagull" that I remember, so not on Oregon coast.

Low Tide at Harper

 Due to COVID-19 this was my first painting trip this year. I painted at Harper, WA in low tide. I realized my drawing problem after came back and checked with my reference photos. I forgot to bring small sketch book to draw a thumbnail. Next time I will remember. The foreground was unproportionally stretched vertically, which doesn't match the background water and mountains.