Corsica Cemetery

My attempt for this month's Virtual Paintout challenge - Corsica. This is a hillside cemetery in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano, Southern Corsica, France.

Every month since I discovered Virtual Paintout, I spend the day lost in the streets of the target city. I wander about capturing screen shots of the scenes I think I might attempt. Every month I end up choosing:

1.) A scene with lots of structural ironwork: bridges, transmission towers, industrial plants; or

2.) Cemeteries; or

3.) A scene with a spot of bright red.

If I ever found a cemetery with something bright red in the middle and a transmission tower on the hilltop above it I would be in hog heaven.

I actually finished a sketch for Lisbon, Portugal, but was too much a scaredy-cat to submit it. I did the ink work for Nova Scotia, Canada but gave up in frustration and never got it painted. I have lots of screen caps of different cities that never even made it to a pencil sketch. This is my first Virtual Paintout submission. Yay!

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Process notes:
All that hot, yellow grass is supposed to be a nice, calm lime green. Fought with my scanner twenty ways to Sunday and it would not see that as lime green. Phooey.

WIP - Oil Production Station

Work in Progress
8.5" x 11" in big sketchbook
Pigma Micron 005 pen

I'm not quite happy with this. Something is missing but I can't decide what exactly. There needs to be more contrast, more blackness.

I can't decide if I want to mess it up with more pen ink, brush pen ink, a monochromatic watercolor wash, or a full color watercolor painting. Hummm...

At this point I think I should sleep on it and view it with new eyes in the morning.

Lisbon, Portugal

Brush Pen - Day 3. Still trying for a looser look. Decided not to paint the shadows and leave it clean. It looks funny without them I think.

This would be my entry for The Virtual Paintout challenge for this month...if I had the 'nads to post it.