Last month, we explored how the interplay between light and shadow can be used to evoke the three‑dimensional world on the flat surface of a sheet of paper. Now we’re ready to move on, and we’ll start with a subject that’s close to every paddler’s heart: water. But water has many moods, from the placid stillness of a tucked‑away mountain tarn on a sullen summer’s day to the howling tumult of a surf‑hammered shore. Luckily, most paddlers soon master the elements of water’s secret language, learning to read the many hidden forces that dictate whether a body of water sulks or storms. And this “secret language” is the key to capturing water’s moods with a pencil.

How do you begin? In the same way you learned to paddle, by venturing cautiously out onto flatwater… Read more…

 

 
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