We had to do ten watercolors and ten pen and inks. We had to do the same picture for watercolor and pen and ink. I did some of mine in my hometown of Montrose, Iowa down at an observation deck that is next to the river. I tried to very my technique some, and also switch between doing watercolors first or pen and ink first. I think I would rather do the pen and ink before the watercolors because then I have at least drawn it out once. I did a picture from when I went whale watching with my family in Glauster, Ma.

The picture is of a light house on the edge of coast. I like the way my lighthouse turned out in my watercolors. I think the sky in the back ground is really a nice as well with the few white clouds. Im not to fond of the rocks or the bushes, I still havent gotten down the trees yet. However I used some wet on wet and then some wet on dry techniques. There is one spot on the lighthouse that I forgot was still wet and tried to paint a nice sharp line, so it fuzzed just a little. The line design needs some work, the trees or bushes are to spastic. I do feel that the rocks are a little bit better in this then in the watercolor version.

And one last thing about that set is that I did the line drawing first and then the water color. The train tracks and grain bins painting and line work is one of the few works I did while I was at home. I liked doing this from observation rather than from a picture and I think there is a different look to the set. I did the line design first, if I remember right, and then did the watercolor. I tried to make the trees less spastic in this line design, but Im afraid that the trees in the back ground look like mountains. I do like the way the grain bin on the left turned out, I think it makes it look a little old. I didnt add as much details on the line drawing as I did in the water color because I was afriad it would look very hectic. With the watercolors version my background trees look more like trees than mountains, but I do think that color helps. Once again I like the grain bins, however, I was having just a little trouble portraing the rust. I did a small wash for the sky and most of the rest was wet on dry, and a little dry on dry for the gravel.