Sketching some of Asheville architecture buildings, using pen and watercolor.
"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh." John Singer Sargent
Welcome to Linda Cheek's Plein-Air Art Studio. I started bulding my art studio in 1990 and it has been and still is a work in progress, to quote Grandma Cheek "by the time you've made it, you've had it." I hope this blog will be an inspiration to artists and others as well.
"You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh." John Singer Sargent
2 new 9x12 watercolor paintings, "Wilderness" in the Linville gorge and of the Linville river in western North Carolina mountains.
Painting a watercolor cloud study from one of my small plein air oil study. I painted when I was in South Carolina on the coast. The watercolor is the one on the right, with the first wash down and keeping the whites.
This painting was painted in Madison Country North Carolina in a place call "Big Pine", it is a landscape of tobacco barns and far...