Capturing the landscape in pencil or paint is both an obsession and a meditative state for me. The act of recording a scene makes me pay attention to what I see and then the practice of painting calms me down so that I am in the present moment like no other activity I can think of.
I just started this watercolor an hour or so ago and like how it is progressing. Like most artists the light is what caught my eye with this composition. That light makes the whole landscape seem special or at least noteworthy.
There is such a freshness to this watercolor with the pleasing pigments and the blending of colors that the warmth of light seems to be a result of the act of painting. That heavy shadow in the foreground seems to sharpen the view of the distant landscape.
At times the less you paint the more powerful the image can become. Would a figure in the foreground ruin this picture for you?
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