american kestrel

                             8x10

                            6x8

First bird of the fall session with SaltyWaterArt, an Amercan kestrel.

Sometimes I look at my paintings and think I go both too far and not far enough.

A new practice I'm trying out: painting before coffee!

I had these small Notans in my sketchbook--made from photos I took in the Virgin Islands some years back--and I used them to directly paint small studies, meaning no drawing first.