The painting is done on a birch panel which had a very light umber imprimatura. It was done in one pass, with no overpainting, brushing wet paint into wet paint. It was begun at approximately 3:30pm, and finished a little more than an hour and a half later.
Off 151st (Snohomish)
This is an alla prima (at one sitting) painting of a favorite view of the Snohomish Valley, above Hwy 2. It's easy to see the level of particulate matter (ppm) in the color of the sky nearest the horizon. It's the smoke. I once read that the pollution around Paris made the Impressionists' skies more interesting. That which doth not kill us makes our paintings stronger.
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