I did this watercolor early in the morning about a week ago at Oakland Cemetery. Finding a shady spot in which to work was a challenge and forced me to work from a radical viewpoint, which made for some dramatic foreshortening. Overall, I was pleased with the result.

Lion of Atlanta

Materials and Technique

I used Arches 140# Rough paper from a 12 x 16 block.

My palette was:

  • Raw sienna
  • Burnt sienna
  • Cobalt blue
  • Ultramarine violet
  • Thalo turquoise
  • New Gamboge