Weekend drawings: some progress

Well, I promised some more drawing(s) in this series from the park at the end of the weekend, so here you are. I'm still not anywhere close to where I want to go with these -- it's the same problem I was dealing with, same time last year, with the series of Montmorency Falls -- but this Conte crayon sketch helped me move past some of the difficulties caused by drawing with ink and pointed tools. There are some areas in this drawing that I like a lot, though it is rather more of a mark-making sampler than a cohesive drawing. That's OK. Every step on the way is a good step.

Here's a compositional sketch, deconstructing one of the drawings I posted last week. I did another charcoal study from this one too. It's too stylized, but it's clear that working the relationships out in charcoal is going to be helpful. Anyway, I feel less discouraged than I did on Friday! It was a beautiful weekend here, though humid, and we enjoyed it.  Hope you did too.