Spring Hollow Waterfall

This is the first of many plein air paintings that I will be doing this summer.  I did this one the week school got over at the beginning of last month and then started a class the week after, which has gotten completely in the way of my painting for a month now.  Good news is the class is over this week and I can resume painting if the weather will start cooperating up here in Logan! Rain, rain, GO AWAY!

This painting is of a stream that flows through a campground up Logan Canyon.  It has a series of small waterfalls that are completely covered in moss and vibrant green grass, and very canopied in by trees and foliage.  I just loved the colors that I found there and had to go paint it!  I did this small painting in about an hour and a half. It's just a study really on a 7x9 inch panel.

It's always fun to plein air paint because you inevitably end up with an audience on occasion.  I had a group of older women who hike a few times a week together stop and take a picture with me and admire my painting(which I'd only just barely started and looked like crap at that point).  But it came together in the end(when my audience finally allowed me to start painting again) and turned out pretty cool.  I want to go back up and do some larger paintings that I spend a little more time on before too long so I'll post those when they get done.  Sorry once again for the terrible crop!