Foundry artist Melissa Miller (in the photo) and I met up at Key Bridge today to paint. 
I added other planes to the painting and deepened the shadows on the plane in front. It was hard to reduce the wing width -- you can't help but see the wings as huge and wide -- but their right place in the painting is as a mostly horizontal surface which simply would stand up vertically if painted any wider. I still have some work to do in the sky and in the little white plane on the right.
It was too hot to paint at the shade-less airport this morning, so I set up by a stream in deep shade. It was lovely.
I've just returned from a less-than-24 hour trip to Hanover NH. I was up this morning at 4:30 a.m. in NH to fly back to DC and in a state of sheer exhaustion joined the group of painters at the Montgomery County Airpark. I wasn't sure if I was seeing planes or just hallucinating. I not only had a short trip out of town (which was rivaled only by my trip to Camden NJ three days ago -- that was a 4:45 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. day trip) but I also didn't have a whole lot of time to look at this plane I was painting. My dad used to fly small planes and I can remember feeling queasy in planes that looked a lot like this one. I hope it's still sitting at the airport on Wednesday when I'll get back out there.
Two paintings sold -- the live lobster and a tree painting, Yellow Light. A very nice evening and fun talking to friends. Elena, who modeled for me over the winter, came by with her husband Reinhold -- I think she wanted to see the paintings she'd posed for, but they didn't fit into the show.
