Sunday, May 31, 2009

By a Quiet Pond


Last Thursday I went out to Lake Bob Sandlin  with Suzanne Clarke to do some plein air painting.  This lake is in East Texas about a 100 miles from Dallas.  We went into a wooded area where I painted two views.  I'm going to show the last of three paintings that I did in the course of four hours.  The interesting thing is that the old rule of painting fast is best held true pretty much this day.  I spent 30 minutes on this painting.  The colors turned out very vivid because I was sitting in the shade and looking at a scene in the sun.  When I make corrections on this painting, I'll make the grass in the foreground more green and adjust my darks and lights.  Over all it was a great day.

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