Painting Eleven - Pier Still Life

I have been battling the humidity the last couple of days but felt the need to get out and paint this morning.  I am usually dissatisfied with my watercolor efforts in the field but I felt pretty good about this one.  It still needs a makeover in the studio perhaps but I did capture the impression I was going for.  The fish pier is an excellent place to paint; lots of subject matter everywhere with good shady vantage points and very few onlookers.  The workers are much too busy to stop and look at a painter at work and there are few tourists going out that far.  Once again my travelling bike studio paid off.  This painting took one hour.  I was hoping to get a more subdued stain-like effect but no matter how hard I try to avoid color I am drawn to it somehow.  I am going out again this afternoon and I intend to use a limited pallette of just two colors: burnt sienna and french ultramarine.  This should guarantee the old-world, staining appearance I so admire in the old English masters.  We'll see.

 

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