a.m. practice

                               7x10

Always the struggle between loose and tight, control and flow.

I am drawn to those monochromatic winter scenes with soft distant trees and crackling whites left to show the snow on foreground trees.

I really want to paint a good one. I guess that's what this a.m. practice is for.

Sketchbook page of a beach on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

I will, at long last!, be going there this spring and I'm testing out colors to bring.