Two weeks ago, I painted this scene on San Francisco Bay but in loading up I must have left it behind. No one turned it in. When I got back to my studio, I did it again from my sketches. This time I dropped several colors into a wet spot and wanted to leave the driftwood pile more or less abstract. I then decided to carve out some of the flotsam and jetsam. Most of it took on a red hue from the alizarin crimson which ran and stained. The pile of stuff is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers. They bring in some huge logs and pilings and they are offloaded by the crane. Lots of action to watch while painting. This painting turned out better than the one I lost.
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