Boardwalk Days part 2

Having decided that I want to go forward for now with the most recent idea for the setting for the new boardwalk print, the next step was to do more research. Forecasters say we are entering another stretch of unseasonably warm weather, but rather than take a chance on what may happen, I went back to Asbury's boardwalk today. It was warm and sunny when I left my car at the Studio, but not as nice when I got to the Ocean. Chilly, cloudy, stiff breezes. Passing through the Casino, I couldn't even see Convention Hall through the fog, but I'd be drawing it from up close, so that wouldn't be an issue.

I had brought some drawing paper with me, pre-lined with the border size for prints in this series, and a old canvas board to act as a portable work surface. I wanted to make the two bits of architecture on either side feel much bigger than in last week's photo, to provide a sense of them looming far overhead of the viewer. At the size I drew each building today there was no space between them, so I will have to play around with spacing and scale on the next version. I also took a bunch more photos of the two buildings, to give me more details to use in the eventual block sketch. I think that I have enough to get started, though I can always go back again if I need to. On the way back I scouted some locations that I need to to know for next weekend's arts festival in Ocean Grove. Somehow, as soon as I reached my car, the sun finally came back out, after having been missing for the 90 minutes I was wandering around.