Artist Statement: The idea to bring in the waves correctly while also not taking away from the land and the shadows that surround them. I worked hard on the land but also didn’t seem to get the detail I felt was exemplary like what others in class have done. I chose to make it because it is one of the first photographs that I had posted when I joined social media because I was proud of it and I felt it brought in a little bit of what I see when I am at the beach.

It also has importance because of the location being on my aunt’s beach which is a place where my family goes to hangout in the summer.

I used a ruler and a regular pencil to use the gridding technique I was taught previously in the realistic self portrait project. Once I was done with the gridding technique I grabbed the photocopy of the image I was trying to recreate and I used the gridding technique on that piece as well. Then I grabbed my graphite pencils/pencils and eraser and got to getting basic lines down that I would then add on to. Once getting down some of the initial lines I started shading in the ocean to make it all in that it was a drawing of an ocean view/perspective.

I messed around with the lines and shapes of the land in the background and the foreground of the image to make sure they matched up with the image to give a realistic sense. I wanted to value the ocean so I added in some white charcoal to let there be some of the fizz that comes off in the ocean when the water crashes onto the beach. I shaded it in and made sure the contrast and balance with the white charcoal was there. It went from being a piece of drawn gridded paper with some faint sketches of some land to a drawing of an ocean view. A place where many people go in Maine and value in the summer time for it is only there for so long before it is washed away with the cold winters. My next steps would be adding more detail and taking a longer time on it and making it more realistic to the image I base it off of.