The Outside Shore
Demonstration - Around The Bend
Final On Site Touches
It has been an hour and a half since I started, and that is about as long as
I work on a painting on location in many cases. I was not fooling myself into
thinking I was really looking at the same scene I had started with - the sun was
no longer illuminating any part of it aside from a few specks of distant
background foliage. But because this was relatively large for a plein air
painting, I decided to spend a few more minutes making sure I had all the
information I would need to complete the painting in my studio.
 During the
next fifteen minutes, I made very few strokes of pastel, but fixed some of the
things that were bothering me in the painting. I removed the little stray
black mark that had appeared at the foreground shore to the left, I warmed and
dulled the dark background foliage, and I made some of the background tree
trunks and branches more prominent. I also strengthened a couple of highlights.
But I decided the painting had all the detail it was going to get, and that
further time spent on site would not be necessary.
I took another photograph of
the scene before packing up, both to remind myself how it looked at the end, and
to show you how much a scene can change in less than two hours.
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