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With an urge to see a few tulips, I joined the Anacortes Sketchers and Whidbey Island Sketchers in the Skagit Valley tulip fields for a day of color and sunshine. All that sunshine was deceptive,
though – we could have used a bit more warmth!
When I saw the endless fields of red and purple, my first
reaction was to be overwhelmed. Where do I start? How? I decided it was a good
opportunity to paint the way I have always wanted to paint but haven’t done
much of – straight to color, no messing around with drawn lines first. When I
switched views for a close-up of a few tulips, I considered drawing an outline
first as I usually would. But I had enjoyed the looseness of painting the
fields straight with paint so much that I decided to sketch the individual
tulips that way, too.
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My thanks to Missy, Lisbeth, Carolyn and the other Anacortes
and Whidbey sketchers for their warm welcome today! And I happily discovered
that most of us will be meeting again very soon – at Gail Wong and Frank Ching’s
Line to Color workshop in Mt. Vernon this Saturday!
