Moonlight in Vermont - series in progress

Originally, this was one work. But after it was done, I kept seeing it in my mind and kept looking at it. At some point I knew, for me, the wash on the mountainside was critical. So began myriad experiments with the wash, and then came numerous reworkings of the whole concept, and this, I guess, is how a "series" gets born.

And, they will be difficult images to photograph because the Hooker's Green (hill color) and Payne's Grey or Prussian Blue (the sky color) are so dark and similar in value. The color used for the moon is interesting to me. It's Holbein's Jaune Brillant No. 1 watercolor. To me, it's become "moon paint", since I haven't yet found any other use for it! It was one of the colors I bought long before I started to paint, and I think, knowing me, I must have been attracted by the name.