My wife and I went painting today at one of our favorite locations, on a footpath through a salt marsh in Rhode Island where we live. It was a cold, gray, damp day, typical of late fall around here. Sheila painted the tide creek and cove looking seaward toward Narragansett Bay, while I painted the creek and marsh looking inland toward the village. The colors on the marsh

were quite beautiful and the photo doesn't do them justice. The paint was taking a long time to dry so I worked on two paintings at once, allowing one to dry while I worked on the other, back and forth. The pigments are ultramarine, burnt sienna, raw sienna, quinacridone gold and permanent alizarin crimson, which I think are my favorites for landscapes this time of year. I tried to keep the paintings loose. The first one is about 7 x 9 inches on Arches, and I started and finished the painting with a sepia charcoal pencil. The second is in my Canson Montval sketchbook, about 8 x 10. I've also included my preliminary ink sketch, about 3 x 5 or so. Edo commented that one of my paintings was too dry so I've been trying to use more water and more paint. Comments and suggestions welcome!