Back working in the studio this week on paintings for my August show, including repainting the sky of "Blue Barn" ( a small detail shown here) from cloudy to breezy.

Blue Barn, Breezy Day (detail, in progress)

I'm starting this new large studio landscape with a different approach, thinking out the color composition carefully (a limited palette of six colors) and painting color shapes directly, without a monochromatic under painting. It's an exercise in what Kenneth Clark in his great book "Landscape Into Art" calls "the artifice of construction".