March 9th, 2013
Cox Reservation, Essex MA
Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in
(sold)

This was a wonderful weekend to be out painting, as we had had a huge snow fall on Thursday and Friday, but on Saturday the temperature had warmed almost to 50 in the sun. So it looked like winter but felt like spring, and I felt great and excited to be out in the fresh air painting. The downside was that I had run out of white paint, which is pretty amazing considering the quantity I had not to long ago. I go through a lot of paint. I did what you see above while I was outside – and I stopped when I had absolutely no white left. By the time I got more, the parts of the painting I wanted to work on (adding branches in the sky and foreground, working on the rocks on the left) had dried. You really can’t work on a dry painting with a pallet knife. So it will remain as it is.