Deer Island Day 2

While the first day of the workshop was warm and sunny, the second day was cool and foggy. We headed out to Deer Island with the intention of getting some painting done. This would have been a great lesson in tonal painting...notice the words would have!

We spent most this time scouting out locations with John Budicin and his group along with us. We took lots of photographs and here's the conditions we were facing. We actually set up to paint this....



I had envisioned a light purplish/mauve tone to the fog to balance out the yellow of the boat. But that was not to be---as a passerby asked me a question regarding the direction to the ferry, I turned to see a storm bank moving in. This was not good. I called down to Joe Anna and pointed it out to her. A dismayed face and everyone started to paint faster---well those who were set up to paint. The rest of us hoped it was a passing storm. WRONG! It drenched us! We broke our stuff down and headed back to the ferry.

While we didn't paint we had lots of great discussion on tonal paintings and lots of photo reference for both practice in the studio and drawing exercises.

We'll see what Day 3 brings us!
Ciao,
Linda