Done to my satisfaction

Finally have painted from a Death Valley photo without fighting the pull of detail. This after a failed half sheet with three times as much information: Luke, the painter; the mountains behind; the big sky and the striped mountain range on the right side of the valley. This one is just Luke and the mountains behind him, and it rocks.

I also painted without drawing first. It requires that I put paint down with a great deal of thought, and I believe this extra thought shows. I really don't know why I draw at all. Lack of confidence perhaps, or doing it that way because every other watercolorist does. Time to say "Enough of that."

I feel blessed again. The inner critic is silenced.