Scratchout Tools

My scratch out tools

fit perfectly in my mustard jar

it says "real Zaanse mustard"

(from Zaandam,

a town in North of Holland)

some artists make this

their main art medium

I'm still just experimenting

with it. I'll show next week

what I'm working on.

I''LL BE BACK AFTER Thanksgiving Weekend

That is, if I'm recovered from sugar shock of all the pies I ate on Thanksgiving day! 

Hope you had a good one!
I'll leave the black background color on till after the weekend to see if I like it.

Am not sure yet how I like to arrange and organize the paintings, but today I'd thought to synchronize it with my primary blog post.     Happy Monday!  
 P.S. Click to enlarge (if you like).

© My Neighborhood, Oil, St. Germain

NOTES

- view from my kitchen window

-canvas propped on the blue-tiled counter

-snow on Big Bear mountains down to 4000 feet

-snow and sky are almost same color value

-dream of my house being on the country side

-trying out this particular mood:

cold and warm and....? in the same scene

-the Cerulean blue of the forest background

repeated in the windows

- I like the simplicity of it

-fits with the inches 16 x 20

-so, what do ya think?