An example of the type of step study that will be featured in my new book, "Mondays with Camille" and Everything Else you Didn't Learn in Art School about Color," due out November 2013.

Gray day light is one of my favorite lights to paint. Hensche often said that there was more color in a gray day than a sunny because the colors weren't bleached out.

Here is a photo of the actual scene, a turning basin in the Petaluma River.

Step One

Step Two

An example of the type of step study that will be featured in my new book ("Mondays with Camille" and Everything Else you Didn't Learn in Art School about Color) due out November 2013. 

The demo was a study of the variation in greens.  Step One - It was a challenge to get the far trees on the right to recede, so I stated them cooler and more violet. The trees on the left were started with warmer color notes.  I started the sky with a warm note of color to which I eventually added blue.

Preliminary Sketch Step Two