Peaks no.10

Thur. September 20, 2007
1:30pm

Today is my birthday! It has turned out to be another gorgeous day at the end of September. i ran off to go paint this before cole and i had to to catch the 5pm ferry to portland for drinks with friends.
i took heta to the backside of the island with me, and sat to paint by lodging a bunch of big rocks around my easel as for the box not to slide away. I do not remember much about this session aside from the ocean and sky both being very pleasing blue colors. i wanted to include the sky for that reason but compositionally wanted to leave the horizon out to have the final piece be more about clusters and less about landscape and space. i compromised with the thin sliver at the top suggesting the other land masses vaguely in the distance.
upon returning home there was a mysterious package wrapped in brown paper and left on the steps leading into the house. Someone had glued little purple flowers (asters?) in a horizontal line across the front numbered 1 thru 6... and had written a lovely birthday note under the six flower lineup.