Most days I walk past the Methodist Church, and I always admire how the morning light highlights the steeple and sends shafts of light across the shaded lawn. In painting this structure, the challenge was maintaining the dark value of the brick, so the "shadedness" would be obvious. That worked for me, or at least, I think it did.. Plein air painting requires speed because the light quickly changes. In the process of "getting the paint on," detail is often sacrificed. Ideally, the details can be seen to back in the studio at an unhurried pace. Lines are often crooked; paint is smeared, etc. These details can be addressed later. Even better, a plein air piece can be used as a guide for a more serious version, one in which those oversights can be eliminated. The idea is to get a field study of the values and other information that can result in authentic work, one painted later.
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