I ALWAYS talk about colour. The older I get the more passionate I am about colour. Recently I have been doing "In the woods" mini- painting studies (not longer than an hour). My goal is to forget about the tiny forms and just get the overall larger forms. This/that is what I was taught. Except, We had to "bugger" around with fingers and toes and little leaves and all their gradations (much like english painting-see below sample). I have a huge respect for english watercolours, but it's NOT love. I love colour--broad shapes and forms. Especially when it comes the landscapes. However I have been wondering when is one's colour eye limited and when is it the colours in nature? This is probably what the impressionists where thinking. Most plein air painters would say that everything you need is right in front of you. The sky takes care of your colours--whatever you chose them to be? So perhaps it is just my limited colour eye and not our Canadian Greeny greens, green, green....and more greens.