The Outside Shore
Demonstration - Around The Bend
Starting Out
 The sun was coming in from fairly low to my right as I looked at
the scene. I knew the shadows would be moving quickly as the sun set, but I
hoped I would have long enough to capture something of the original feel.
As I almost always do, I began by doing a quick (five minutes or less) sketch. The primary purpose is to make sure I understand the arrangement of
shapes and their values before tackling them in the painting, and how I wish to
crop the scene. A side benefit
is that, if I go into enough detail, I have record of the initial shadow
pattern. In this particular case, I did not go into a whole lot of detail, and
in fact, my quick sketch contains a number of perspective errors. But I thought
it worked well enough to give me confidence that my painting would have visual
interest.
 By the time I
finished the sketch, went back to my car to get the rest of my painting
supplies, and set up for painting, the shadows had already moved. The photograph of
the scene above was taken around five to ten minutes after I completed the
sketch, and you can see the shadows on the foreground hillside to the left are
already taller and more prominent than they were in the sketch.
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