Every morning my wife and I walk past this spot with our dog. One morning last summer the light was hitting it just so and there was a quiet timeless quality our New England town can sometimes evoke. No other people or dogs. It seemed so perfect I stopped to take a photo.
There is no underdrawing. I just started sketching loosely using a 12 Princeton Aqua Elite with a really pointy tip -- a new brush for me that I like a lot --and a light gray/blue wash. As the painting took form I added some quin gold/raw siena washes and went from there.
I was hoping for a plein air feeling and now that it's done, The next version gets a careful underdrawing and a plan for a more finished version the way Olly is discussing in the most recent on-line tutorials. We'll see what happens.


No Fishing lines but great telegraph wires ;-)