I still have had no time to paint, but I did get to take my grandson fossil hunting this last weekend so that was a good trade off. Anyhow, I thought I would post another of my older paintings. This is a slightly stylized view of a boat in Douro River at Porto, Portugal at sunset. My son had brought home some sort of impasto compound and suggested with both experiment with it. I did this mainly with a palette knife, and did the boat with brushes. It took about an hour. I do like the rather impressionistic result. It’s a good memory too (both of Porto and painting with my son). Pardon the glare on the right side. Has anyone else played around with impasto compound?

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Since I have not been able to paint in a while I thought I would post an older painting painting I did a long time ago. I have very little time to paint - usually only 2 hours a week - and that had not even happened in a few weeks. This painting (oil, 12x16) is from a photo I took at the Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania USA I always liked this one.

Another attempt at a landscape painting. I’m not quite sure yet if I like it… Do you think it might be too busy?