It's was a little chilly this morning, but I still went to the beach to paint. This is Mauserts Pond again. I've included the little sketch that I customarily do before starting a painting. The painting is 9x12, oil on panel. The sketch 6x8 inches.
In the catalog Impression: Painting Quickly In France 1860 -1890 Richard Brettel writes that another probable characteristic of Sisley, unlike the other Impressionists, was his practice of making a small drawing prior to starting a painting. He bases this assumption upon the survival of one sketchbook, but it makes sense. "By planning a composition using a rapidly drawn pencil croquis, Sisley could integrate his experimental graphism into the work...Planning the composition before he began to paint freed him from thinking about it later, so that he could then respond immediately and without adjustment to chromatic stimulate as he worked in color."
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