Illustration: Tower from Commercial St Beach, provincetown , MA

 

This is a common view in provincetown, I never tire of it. One thing I don't like is the wires, posts and other crap that blocks the details I like to see so i didn't drawn much of that. Still the details took quite a bit of time and I almost decided to keep this as line work. I have a couple more drawings to do from my December trip. 

Illustration: Race Point lighthouse, Provincetown MA

 

This was much easier than I thought it would be. I thought house details would take forever and I wasn't sure how I was going to paint the colours as my reference were all taken during a snowstorm so I had to remember and guess how they looked to me while there. 

I kept a somber tone and tried not to go crazy with the details on the dunes as it's the lighthouse and buildings I want to stand out. Outlines with an ink brush for the details and then coloured in underneath. 

photography: Provincetown 2023

 I wasn't sure if I would be able to take my end of year trip to provincetown Massachusetts this year. The hotel I usually stay in doubled it rates and going to the states has become more of chore for me lately. However, a friend who has a condo there rents it out and gave me a really kind offer and I was able to stay 5 night for what would have costs me for 2 so I took advantage of that and was able to wander around and take a photos in at least one place I have never been to before.  I only spoke to one person I knew while there the entire trip which was very nice for me because I go there for solitude. Provincetown is super active in season but the opposite off season. I was also recovering from my first case of Covid and had (and still have weeks later) a terrible cough. So while being sick while away isn't ideal, it's better to be sick in a place you can do things by yourself and come back to your place and just sleep or do nothing.

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There are three lighthouses in provincetown, one I photographed in detail last year, one I have never seen and one I kept seeing but could never get to on Race Point. It took three days of walking for hours and a quick cab ride to finally get there. It's not a road and there are no signs telling where it is. I was deposited on a fire road that became dunes and a sort of broken pathway that led to the lighthouse and it's accompanying buildings. Great! Well, mostly great. The one day i could get there was the same day as a snow storm the the photos I took were not exactly what I was looking for but managed a few good ones I hope. 

Other excursions took me all over Race Point and while I have taken nice images there before I was able to spend more time wandering all over. There are several structures there I find interesting and the dunes are always beautiful.

Lastly, I spent some time taking photos on and around commercial street, the main drag through the town in the daytime and also at night to sort of button up the images I have wanted ot take over the years and never got to. 

Illustration: Terrace, Provincetown USA

 

Something I hope my friends Louis and Eric will like. This was the terrace attached to their place, until their recent sale,  in Provncetown USA. Painted in Procreate over a couple weeks, I did not feel like I was ready for it, it's sort of complicated, until I finished the lighthouse illustration. Landscapes don't come easy for me and I am trying to do more so I'm not so intimated by them. Not sure what style I was going for here. It's not photographic but it is a little anime background painting maybe. Tried to use perspective lines to give it depth. 

Illustration: phare: herring cove Provincetown

 I started and restarted this a few times, so many times I actually thought I had done several versions already! I finally decided on ink with colour under it using Procreate. It actually looks OK without the ink, rough but it's all there. I am not super confident with full landscapes, especially in colour but this came out like I wanted it and I think it has depth to it. 

Photography: Herring Cove lighthouse and Provincetown MA, USA

 I was recently in Massachusetts for a week and spent a few days in Provincetown on Cape Cod, a place I used to frequent when I lived in Boston. It was very cloudy which made the day photography nice and interesting but I was hoping to get some night shots on the beach of the stars as well and that wasn't to be. That might have been for the best as I spent a day in-between tides on Herring Cove and noticed a couple coyotes were in the area but not paying too much attention to me. I found out after getting home that there have been a few attacks on the beach in broad daylight only a week before. 

One reason I went was to try and photograph a lighthouse on Herring Cove I have completely failed to capture on any of my other trips there. The last attempt I walked along the breakers to the lighthouse in a dense fog which turned out to be super dangerous and the fog was so think I got only 2 shots of a barely visible lighthouse. This time the day was great and I took the long way around and back via the beach. No one was around for miles... perfect for me. 

I got up at sunrise a few times to photograph the harbour and piers which went fine. There isn't a drastic sunrise and the sunsets, which are often amazing, eluded me this trip.