In a lot of ways this painting is what on site landscape painting is all about. My wife and I walk 3 miles for exercise every day…well maybe not every day, but we did that this past Saturday and then I gathered my painting gear and headed out to Caumsett State Park on the North Shore of Long Island.

Now I’ve been to Caumsett before and I know there is some walking involved but it took me 3 ½ miles to get to this point! Don’t get me wrong, the view and resulting painting were totally worth the effort but I was looking at about another 3 miles to get back to the car. I remember thinking at one point that being an on site landscape painter is turning out to be good aerobic exercise! A total of six miles with my backpack, tripod and camera on top of the three miles I had walked that morning. But it couldn’t have been a nicer day and, as is always the case when I’m outside looking for paintings, I loved every moment of the “adventure”.

I told my wife that I had done three days worth of walking in one day and for the next two days she was on her own. She just smiled and advised me to be ready the next morning for OUR walk!