Time lapse

I honestly don't know how I went from June 16 to June 21 without a painting, but somehow the days passed and I didn't feel inspired, or ran out of time, or didn't even think of it while doing other things (although what they were I mostly couldn't tell you). But this painting is one I've had in mind for a while now (every time I look to the right out of my patio), and today was the day to put it on paper.

It doesn't, of course, capture everything I was hoping to reproduce. The chair is sitting up against the wall in the shadow of my giant jacaranda tree, the only evidence of that in this picture being the cast light and shade. The chair is a little smaller and therefore less imposing than I intended, and the bright greens on the climber rose were hard to catch in their contrast between bright light and dark shadow. I overworked the background foliage, but I did enjoy capturing the variable canopy (from untrimmed palm trees to giant ash to orange trees) in the vista beyond the wall.

Paul Jackson and M. Graham paints in Bee sketchbook.