Of all the plein air painting experiences I have had, this was one of the most pleasant. You truly don't know what's going to happen - it could snow or an unfed dog could come bearing down at me.
Yesterday my wife and I decided late in the day we would walk to an outdoor concert - once we figured the rain would hold off. So I had about one hour and a half to settle on a site to paint and then paint it. This is a result of that time spent three blocks from my house. Fortunately, the park had only a handful of people as I had to focus on my task at hand.
This watercolor was painted on a small watercolor block so I had to simplify my composition. Many trees in the foreground I excluded from the picture both due to a lack of time and it would have made the scene way too crowded.
The colors were much more livelier and richer when the paint was wet, but I like the overall character of the scene and the vegetation in general. When you paint outside it is good to have modest expectations because you don't always know what you will come up with in the end.
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