Often when time is limited I simply start painting on any single sheet of watercolor paper or scrap I can find. At times this may be on a rough, cold press, hot press or soft press surface. Sometimes I even paint on illustration board.
This landscape was painted on an Arches cold press sheet of 140 lb watercolor paper. It has some texture to it but it is not particularly rough if you draw your hand across it. Recently, I have embraced rougher surfaces as I seem to be able to express a more drybrush affect with the brush and appreciate the advantage of leaving the white of the paper when I can.
The last month or so I have been observing, recording and experiencing as many in our area, here in southern Vermont, much rain and the mist and moisture in the air. I ran out and into the heaviest precipitation with my camera in and amongst the lush green growth and wetland environment.
This landscape painting is derived from memory as rain occupied the West River Valley last weekend with it's all encompassing mist dominating the valley at the foot of the Mt. Wantasiquet basin in the distance.
I wanted to match the dark-grays of the evergreens I saw outside. I was reasonably satisfied with the combination of phthalocyaine blue and burnt umber. In some areas of the dense foliage I even flicked paint with my fingernails.
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