Puzzle Pieces

I often think of my paints as pieces of color, one piece enhances and affects the next and if I do it right, when I step back, the eye automatically pulls it all together and the feeling of the painting emerges.  It's almost magical and comes alive.  These are perfect days.

Puzzle Pieces, painted on location or (En Plein Air), as La Jolla was experiencing a familiar chilly, misty Winter morning.  Few people were out and about this early.  I could just be in the moment, along with the coast.  Listening to the gulls, hearing the surf and capturing the movement of the ocean, the weather, the idea of winter with pieces of color I thought,  would be challenging and fun.