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Painting Outdoors

When painting outdoors for hours on end you experience landscape very intimately.

Noises in particular have a different quality. Everything slows down to the pace of the landscape. You notice the cracking of a twig as a bird searches for food or the sound of conversation on the other side of the valley a mile away.

Animals become more trusting, or perhaps they don't notice you are there. Once I was painting in the beech woods near my home, sitting on a low stool with my palette and brushes on the ground next to me. I noticed a mouse there in my pile of brushes nibbling away at the bristles. I kept still and watched him for several minutes before he got bored and left without apparently having noticed me.