Sunflowers and Rainbows

I brought home a few sunflowers from my walk at Bolsa Chica.

Yesterday I decided to draw them with oil pastels.

I saw a YouTube video the other day and I tried to follow the same process.
I used a border of paper tape to keep the edges of the drawing clean.

I sketched an outline of the flowers.

I changed the proportions to make the flowers fill the page.

Here it is about halfway done:

After I filled in everything with oil pastel, I used a Posca paint pen for details.
Here is the end result:

Usually paper tape doesn't stick enough, but this one really ripped the paper underneath.
I know I have regular "artist masking tape", somewhere....

After that I went to the Huntington Beach Pier.
The sun was shining brightly through the clouds.

I saw a short -lived rainbow!

It rained, and I took shelter by the Ruby's restaurant, which was closed.

I was in no hurry to go anywhere.
I observed the sea gulls.

They were fighting over their perching area.
Maybe they were hoping somebody would feed them?

There were a lot of surfers, who were already wet, but not many other people around.

Eventually I went down to the sand and walked there.

It was very cold and rainy but I was reluctant to go home.
I waited around for the sunset, but it was too cloudy, and not colorful.

(I hoped that parking was free, but there was still an attendant, and it cost me $5.)

Not sure if I'm going to walk today (Friday)... It's less rainy but more overcast.

The situation at work changed again...
The governor made the rules a little stricter, and the office is completely closed again.