Southeast (Alaska) Mood

I think the best paintings might get painted quickly, 
when you are not thinking too much and maybe are distracted a bit.

Plein air painting can be like that.

While painting at the Shrine of St Therese one early spring day, 

this is what happened to me.

We had just arrived for our painting retreat

and some of us rushed outside to catch a couple of

hours painting time.

I didn't go very far from the lodge, a couple of steps away. 

Just beside the labyrinth.

I didn't even take any progress photos.

When I got the painting home and lived with it for awhile,
I realized there was too much sky. 

So I cut it off.

And it works now.

Southeast Mood        oil on Arches Huile paper mounted on Masonite     

en plein air     8.75 x 15.5 inches   

Dorland's CWM varnish    

Here it is in its beautiful frame made by my own hubby.💞

Looking back, I did a post about the retreat, here, and this painting

was in the post. But it doesn't hurt to talk about it again, I think. 

Especially when I like the painting.

Hope you are hanging in there. Please take good care and give yourself

some quality time during the holidays.

Paint!

🎨