A Study of Water Reflections

I have been working on studying the different ways water can be represented. Here are  watercolors I did from a scene at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle. I started with very loose light washes with irregular edges at the reflection.  Over that base while still wet I added some darks. The paper was drying up a bit so I started getting hard edges around the white areas. After that first layer had dried a bit I added the final crisp dark strokes. To keep this painting somewhat simple and abstract. I was looking at shape, value and color.

Center for Wooden Boats Saunders Cold Press 5"x 7"

Center for Wooden Boats on Arches Cold Press  10"x14" On location

Last Day of Architecture 415 sketching class!

Today was the last day of Architecture 415, a summer sketching class I am teaching through the U.W.
We had a sketching party at the Center for Wooden Boats at South Lake Union.  It was suppose to be a warm summer day,  however the sun never came out.  Cloudy and cool.