Keeping a Sketchbook

I came home from Florida with only four paintings, but with a lot of sketches.  Yesterday I was finally able to get back to the studio and paint.  It felt so good to feel the brush glide across the paper.

I've said it before:  your sketchbook is a kind of diary of ideas.  It's a roadmap to values and placement of shapes.  Once those two things are in place, you can be free to play with color rather than be a slave to the "real" colors.