DIDN'T SEE EVEN ONE DEVIL

The Virtual Paintout location for August 2012 is Tasmania, Australia.  I "traveled" around the large island just south of mainland Australia by way of Google Streetview.  According to Wikipedia, must of Tasmania is still densely forested, with the Southwest National Park and neighboring areas holding some of the last temperate rain forests in the Southern Hemisphere.

Most of the forests I saw from the Google Camera were kind of scruffy and not too picturesque so I went down to Macquarie Harbor near Strahan on the west coast.

I selected this view of a boat landing and did a watercolor of the area.

I first brushed in a loose blue sky and brought the color down through the water.

I had masked out the whites of the boats allowing freedom to fill in colors around

them.  I dropped in the darks under the pier to give me a range for my values.

Then I got so involved in working on the painting that I forgot

to take any more photos.  This is the finished product.

You can see it featured here on the Virtual Paintout Blog for another few days.