photo of the fading sunflowers, harvested kabucha squash and today's plein air
Today's painting - 62 of my 100-painting Reboot - was supposed to be of the sumac painted exactly one month ago. But the sumac was uninspiring today. It's either a bad year for sumac (it looks like it might be fighting off a disease) or it's too early yet for their flaming red display. It could have also been my timing. It was fairly close to noon when I finally got out to Murphy-Hanrehan Park. Midday can have some of the least interesting shadows of the day. As a rule, outdoor painters like to go out very early - or in the evening - to take advantage of the extreme shadows at those times.
It just so happened, that the midday light picked up some amazing yellows in a tree - near a path - against a larger-darker tree. Inspiration met paint with the result being the painting you see above on the mantel. (A closer-more-detailed photo of the painting coming tomorrow.)
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