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Tall Ships Festival, and Painting En Plein Air

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Taking my Paintbrushes with Me.... Wherever I go.... Developing a Painting En Plein Air - Outside is such a wonderful experience.  This one is titled "Berth 77, San Pedro" is an example... Step by step, I loosely sketch with colored pencil, and then I start to block in the details.  One challenge in this would be that the sky would be changing with the variation of light, the movement of clouds, the sun, the shadows, and so on.  So for reference purposes I take progressive photos.     A new challenge that I didn't think about while painting was that the water level will change with the rising and lowering of the tide...  Well, of course it will.  Was I surpised when the windows of the ship I had been painting started off about 4 feet above the deck of the pier, only to be completely below by the time I had finished for the day (I did not finish this painting yet)   So, I therefore am glad I took reference photos.  The yellow boat pictured here was completel