River Rocks - Sooke

This is another Linnyland tale of dark and light...

I painted this one way back in

late October, (it seems to me like way, way back).

Fellow , fellow artist, Jeffrey J. Boron and I went out

to the Sooke Potholes for a painting adventure.

It was a decent day with a sky full of promises.

While we did our exploring the sky

continued to promise even more light.

After a warm and very sunny picnic lunch we set up to paint.

All was well at the start but about 10 minutes into painting

the clouds came in and it was so dark that

there were bats flying

back and forth and all around.

I really like bats so

I concentrated on the shapes that I

could still make out, (the rock shapes not the bat shapes),

and continued on with an "afternoon nocturnal paint".

And, amazingly, (as you know how it sometimes goes),

the sun didn't reappear once we were done.

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"River Rocks - Sooke"

oil on wood panel

10 x 8