Exploratory sketchbook final project

Exploratory sketchbook final project

I sketched a portrait of myself reading on a beach, my favourite activity. I decided to include a palm, a bird, and a crab on a rock. After trying out several compositions, I decided to use a square format across two pages of a sketchbook.

I used watercolour paints and colour pencils.

For the first layer, I used watercolour paint.

For the second layer, I used colouring pencils.

I liked the blurred line between the sky and the sea and decided to paint the palm into the wet background to also blur it and push it to the background. I also decided to make the animals more prominent by making them larger.