April 9th, 2014
Ipswich River at Willowdale, Topsfield MA
Oil on Canvasboard, 18 x 24 in approx.
(sold)

It was another beautiful spring day, and I met up with “the posse” to paint on Wednesday. I couldn’t finish, however, as I had to go do some teaching – and the rest of the week was very hectic. I managed to get a few more hours’ work done on Thursday, but the weather’s so mild that even by then certain parts of the painting were already drying. I managed to finish on Friday, mostly, though as usual I see a few things to tweak. You can’t paint over dried paint with a palette knife though you can with a brush. As usual, I was fixated on the water, and how it went from being reflective, to transparent, to (beyond the shelf of shallows) deep, and green.