Went out for a quick paint-out...

The Jutting (8x10, oils, $100)

I told you I would be getting out of doors to paint this week.....

I painted this one en plein air, this week out on Jamestown. Just a fantastic evening with low sun and the weather was nice. Too nice! It was blowing up a good wind, and thus it's hard to set up the guerilla paint box that well in such conditions. Also, a guy decided to stand on the rock I was painting and fish! I left him out but he made for a good scale comparison. The sea was high and we had some nice waves. Part of me really had to fight to get into the "mood" to do this as I had been a bit tired this week. I timed myself to an hour on this and after 40 minutes I wanted to leave well enough alone, and signed it. Came out fairly nice all things considered-I dropped my brush several times. I most like the way the ocean came out, with regard to that murky color the Atlantic tends to be, particularly over the top of the rock . Ah, the problems painting plein air, that we face sometimes. And to solve them, we just paint on...next time!