Getting a true likeness is the most difficult aspect of portraiture for me, though I can now make a portrait look human.
I like the top half of this portrait but I’m still struggling with the nose and mouth.
Category: Painting
Glenys
First lay-in and then after some pen and ink lines of a watercolour study of Glenys.
Yosemite in misty light
Sitting in the meadow south of Southside Drive, looking up at the cliffs opposite El Capitan.
The light was just beginning to fade and leave the valley, sunlight filtering through the trees and showing up the contours of the rock faces.
Marine Street beach, la Jolla, San Diego
A quick sketch whilst sitting on the beach one morning, before the sun got too hot. The sea was a slightly purplish grey and the sky was only vaguely blue, the sand really just light stone colour, not yellow at all.
The Minarets from below
The last view of the Minarets rock formation from the cable car as they disappear behind the foothill of Mammoth Mountain.
The pine trees give way to deciduous species on the lower slopes, in a few weeks they will be wearing their glorious autumnal colour but so far only a tinge of red ochre showing.
Sally Wakelin - Studies in Creativity 
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