I can’t believe how late into October the weather has stayed warm this year. Usually I’m through with plein air landscapes around the first of the month but we’ve had lovely days throughout. The painting group recently went across a fairly scary little bridge into some fields across from a farm and near a stream. A couple of us set up on the bridge itself and this was the scene before us. I’m concentrating more lately on smaller vignettes, more intimate rather than expansive views. The autumn foliage in its many variations of gold and russet is a lot of fun to work on. Because we’ve had such a warm year the reds are not as prominent as they have been sometimes in the past but much better than last year when there was some kind of maple blight. I love reflections–always a challenge but rewarding. I’ve tried to keep the paint thin for the water but quite thick for the surrounding vegetation.
October Stream 9 x 12 oil on birch panel, unframed $250
