I love marshes. So full of life and color - year round.
This sketch is based on an on location sketch, but it is as much from memory and imagination as it is from life. Like most scenes from nature, I needed to simplify the composition quite a bit. There is so much beauty just a few yards off the road, but most people rarely seem to notice. On this day, there were no birds to be seen, but I almost always seem to see Herons, Cranes, or other birds looking for lunch or for nesting material so I added the birds in to add a point of interest and action to this landscape.
This will serve as a study for an oil painting. Have no idea why certain subjects appear to me as being best captured in watercolor, charcoal, oil, acrylic, or gouache but subjects just seem to lend themselves better to different media.
One other idea I have for experimentation came to me while I was looking through some older drawings as I was packing them away -. I will go over older drawings (not completed on location) that won't serve as study's for finished paintings with Watercolor or gouche - not to colorize them, but to work on improving the compositions.
