Brush with the Highlands 2012 III

Again an 8 x 10 oil painting on panel of a pine tree catching the morning light. Also see below my easel set up before the subject. In order to get the fine lines of
the branches in the light I borrowed a trick from watercolour
and scratched the paint of the panel with the back of the brush.

Brush with the Highlands 2012 II

This 8 x 10 painting was done at the same location as the first (see Brush with the Highlands 2012 below) at the end of the first day but looking in the opposite direction. The location was an old summer camp that is now privately owned and is no longer used as a camp. There was a stream that connected two small bodies of water. The earlier painting was looking south so the light morning sun is on the left,  this is looking north so again the light is coming from the left.