Shaws Cove

Easter Sunday at Shaws Cove.  The tide is low but coming in. The fog had burned off over the beach but was still hanging around over the ocean

Throughout this painting, I used the blue color of the board to represent the shadowed areas within the paining.  Since I was painting on a 24"X 36" board, my mark making needed to be crisp so that I would have good time management.

After my initial sketch, I started working the upper middle values with my mark making.  My focus was to put down marks that closely resembled the tidal rocks.  Again, as I worked the shapes of the rocks I focused on the negative space being left behind to represent the shadows between the rocks.