8" x 10" oil on panel

I went out this past weekend in search of a place to paint. Sometimes that becomes the hardest part of plein air painting for me. I remembered this little pond area real close to town that is in a friends family. Its actually right behind the water treatment plant in Ashland, Ohio. It’s referred to as Cooper Lake. I have been really wanting to loosen up lately so when i saw the great color in the sky and the way it all broke up in the clouds from this front that was closing in on me, I decided to try using my pallete knife to capture that color. I enjoyed it so much that I wound up doing the entire painting that way. This way of painting will loosen you up in a hurry. I really liked this piece but i just tried to do a floral painting the other night with a pallete knife, and honestly, it wasn’t working out so well. Oh well, I will still try this pallete knife thing again.