Assiniboine Forest Sketch Outing

 BRRRR ..... Despite the very cold weather, two of us headed out to Assiniboine Forest Monday afternoon to scout it as a location for sketching and painting. The wind was bitterly cold so we weren't able to spend too much time in the forest. The area that caught our eye was the marsh area. What was interesting was the pattern that the dried cattails made on the snow. Due to the biting wind, we did a fairly quick sketch and I took a few photos. Once at home, I played around with the photo images to come up with a design. Of most interest to me was the texture of the dried cattails and the beautiful patterns that they made on the snow. In order to hilight this, I took the orignal photo and used the cropping tool to eliminate what wasn't of interest and to bring the focus in close to the cattails and their shadow pattern. The bottom photo is of my finished painting. The photos show the process from idea to completed pattern ....

Outfitted in winter gear in Assiniboine Forest


Cattails make interesting shadows on the snow

 

Pencil sketch of cattails


Completed pastel painting from sketch