on the shore of Lake Raven

A quick sketch from a photo taken last November — this was our late afternoon view while camping at Huntsville State Park. These days we have been piecing together plans for a longer camping trip to Bastrop, which is slowly recovering from forest fires a few years back, then on to Hill Country and Fredericksburg.

Complicated by degenerative and bulging discs in Bill’s back. There may be back surgery in his future; we’re taking this adventure before whatever that brings.

Oh, and that tiny mini pan of paint added to my folio palette, sitting in the mixing pan? It’s a smidgen of Schmincke Volcano Violet. I was trying to match the colors of 3 Fiestaware dishes in the dish drainer: turquoise, a soft yellow, and heather. I had cobalt turquoise light and Naples yellow in the palette already, but the volcano violet was the closest I could come to the muted reddish-purple heather. An interesting triad that I may play around with sometime.