Road to the Park

I’d just come from checking out possibilities at Barnes Township Park. Not much there, but this view on the way to Old Dixie Highway caught my eye. I loved the warm rays of late-day sunlight streaking across the road. In the distance lies a field of corn-stubble, backed by a hillside of cedar. On the left is kind of a semi-swampy area, with cattails and a few cedars.

Lesson learned: ALWAYS bring my box of extra paints! I’d left it in the studio and wouldn’t you know I had no yellow — and only a small dab of yellow ochre! And no viridian. I was crippled! Mixing the sky color — kind of a pale, yellowish seafoam green was nearly impossible. I had to limp along with a mix of yellow ochre and Bice (a pale blue from Vasari). I’d have stayed out and done another painting after this but without yellow…..!