Vickery Creek in Roswell

This weekend, after seeing a short television show about the Civil war ruins at the Roswell Mill at Vickery Creek I decided to venture over Saturday to see if I could find a place to paint. I was delighted to find such a wonderful spot so close. The creek is just beautiful and I did this nice view of the vintage Civil war mechanical building from right from the shore. I also did another view up the creek, but about 45 minutes in was washed out by a sudden cloud burst. This painting, although unfinished (ed. now finished) has a nice quality to it. As a prelude to this weekend I've decide to try tinting the canvas panels before painting, some times it's a chore to cover up the white of the canvas and I found that this helped me. I tinted three panels—one each red, ocher, and a blue green. I was delighted to use the red for the brick mechanical building, and also lucked out using the blue green on the view of the creek.
The final painting was done a week later after finishing the stream painting—I did this quick one of the foot bridge as it crosses the creek.