The reservoir at Scott’s Cove is a spot we’ve painted at several times: it offers great views of the water and distant trees, along with good shade and picnic tables to set up on. About five or six of us turned out to paint, and the weather was not bad at all. At this session, instead of my usual white Wallis paper, I worked on the Richeson surface (on Gatorfoam), over an underpainting created with Derwent’s new line of Inktense watercolor pencils. If you haven’t tried these pencils, I strongly recommend that you do, no matter what your medium of choice. They provide an extraordinarily rich and brilliant color layer, far beyond that obtainable from any watercolor pencil I’ve ever used. (I’ve fallen in love with them and am using them under colored pencil, as well.) On the white Richeson surface, they really popped! I worked hard to keep the pastel application minimal over the pencils, not wanting to obliterate the colorful underpainting, but I am undecided about the result.