plein air this afternoon at the creek / late afternoon light / by Philip Tarlow

10/29/21 plein air watercolor

4:05 PM: it was a warm day, with a high of 58F. so i went out to one of our nearby creeks with my materials and made a colored pencil drawing followed by a watercolor. as always, i documented everything. as i was returning to my little collapsable stool after setting up my phone to shoot myself as i painted, i didn’t see a sharp, cut off branch at head hight & slammed into it. i fell to the ground & blacked out for a moment.

but i’m so glad i went out, and if it’s this nice tomorrow i may go back. first i made a colored pencil drawing in one of my sketchbooks, then i got out my paints & brushes and made a watercolor.

the creek at about 3pm this afternoon

about an hour before sunset i photographed this light falling on a recent painting hanging on our stairs.