Art Journal

I went to Sawhill Ponds to paint but it turned out to be another gusty day with 40 mph winds, and it was quite impossible to stand out in the wind, so it was another day to paint inside the car.  When faced with a scene at a lake or pond I have so many times ended up with a line across the canvas, somewhere in the bottom third or top third or middle where the water horizon is and decided I didn't want to do that again this time. So I concentrated on the scene in the distance across the ponds. There were some nice pale spring colors going on there with the trees starting to show the warm color of pre-leaf buds, almost like autumn, and the pale colors of the shadows in the mountains beyond. The pond ended up as a sliver at the bottom.

Sawhill Ponds, 8 x 10