Southbound

I have tagged this as "Rural Lawrence".  But what does that mean?  What was rural 30 years ago is town now.  This particular place sits surrounded by town, and waiting for development. All that still stands of the house is the fireplace. The rest went up in smoke...  I transferred the basics of the sketch to watercolor paper by hand then did this painting. That was a couple days after the sketch below.

Here is the sketch, done in a 9" x 5" pad. I did this on a Saturday I was remembering, but I see the notes say Monday.  I had been visiting the park across the road sometimes for some birding or sketching. This day I walked south near the road and got this sketch.  A good sketch has half a chance of turning into something.  You can see from the notes that I did not include them in the painting- nor use them in the name...  You can also see the paint splashes on the sketch from when I was doing the painting. When the sketch is close enough to the painting to refer to it is also close enough to get a bit of color added to it...    This was it. I did no other sketches or studies, before jumping right into the painting.