Sepowet Marsh, 14 x 11, UART 400

Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure of painting in Tiverton, RI in the Sepowet area, with my friend Janet Gendreau. The composition of this view of marsh and water caught my eye immediately, despite the preponderance of green. What was funny was that by the time I’d finished the lay-in, the water was up to the top of the grass, and by the time the underpainting was done, the water was completely covering the marsh!  I guess it was a full moon. But I stuck with my original drawing and concept, wanting to make the shape of water in the mid-right the main focus of the painting. The addition of the yellow flowers at the end (which were everywhere but here) helped to break up the large mass in the lower right. I corrected the values in the back mass of trees in the studio and added more of a blue green to the water.  The underpainting was done with warm oranges and reds, but little of it seems to be showing through.  This area has long been one of my favorites. I hope to do a series of pictures from this area and perhaps teach a workshop here next summer.