Driftwood

 

Driftwood Sculpture
Watercolour on Paper
16.5cm x 24cm (6.5" x 9.5")

Driftwood is the last topic in the Wood Grain Patterns chapter of  Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor by Claudia Nice. 

We don’t live near the sea and the only piece of driftwood knocking around is in this sculpture by Mike Lythgoe. I’ve drawn it once before – back in 2015 (see January 2015 Sketches). 

Studying the piece intensely has helped me to appreciate it even more. I don’t think I had really noticed the shadows until I sat down to paint it.