I was wondering how easy it would be to paint through my first winter in an outdoor studio, I’ve never done this before. The trick, as I have discovered today, is to start before it gets dark. In this case at 3pm. It was only when I was starting to feel the cold did I look at my watch, it was 7pm, obviously now dark outside. I hadn’t even noticed the sun going down. Painting is the only activity I do where I lose track of time, I love the fact that it totally absorbs my concentration. It slows the mind down, something that is so necessary in the 21st century. This painting is progressing well, these curious shapes are emerging, the difficulty with that is to make them look integral to the landscape.
Evening in the Coquetdale Valley. Day 3