Finding It In the Paint
If the foundation is right, you can leave many decisions to the brush stage.
Sometimes you plan a picture in pencil. Other times you can find it in the paint.
The house is across Route 81 from the churchyard. Jeanette and I set up our easels next to the gravestones and we start painting.
I try to get the overall measurements as close as I can while I'm still in the pencil stage, but most of the discovery happens in the paint.
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