Trip to The East Coast - Part 3: Landscapes (about half of them).

I will break this post into two as there are quite a few drawings and some of them I would like to annotate more than others. As always you can see larger image if you click on it.

This is one of my favorite sketches from the trip - I painted with gouache without any drawing underneath and added some lines with zig calligraphy pen mid-drawing when I thought that I might have to stop abruptly. But since I had some more time I added more gouache over the ink lines.

There two pages of sketches above started super quickly, using markers to put down large shapes and then most of details in the three-sketch page were added from photos and sketch on the right was completed on location - which shows that by having more time I get to a better contrast place with my sketches. You can see some of the gorgeous paper from my hand-made sketchbook as a border on the left sketch above. 

This was a very fast attempt to catch lightness of the lake behind darker but also more detailed trees in the front. I started with super fast layer of gouache used as watercolor but it was too wet to finish right away. And I lost both the light and freshness when I tried to pick it up on the way back to the car. I like some dynamic pencil lines though and I think dark green works really nice with the pumpkin orange and washed yellow with gray purple.