I don’t normally paint views of such great distance, but this was a lively little harbor scene and so representative of the little town of Oxford on Maryland’s Eastern Shore; charming, quaint, small and picturesque. This was painted mid morning (started around 9:30) on location. I found one tree to shade me, while I used my umbrella to shade my painting and my palette. Of course I still managed to get sunburn! This painting is 9×12″ and is oil on canvas.
 
Here I am using the same limited palette of 6 colors plus white that I have used all week, which is incidentally the same palette that the talented plein air painter and instructor Kenn Backhaus recommends. How he manages to get such seductive color with so few pigments still eludes me, but I am determined to figure it out!
Jennifer
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