Back to the regular paint-out schedule. This week we drove down to the Potomac and painted along the canal, at Riley’s Lock. It’s a long drive from Ellicott City, but I’d been wanting to paint there since I discovered it by accident last year. Barbara and I were the only ones who made the trip, and I have to say that, after anticipating it for so long, I really and truly screwed the pooch. It was just a bad painting day: no focus, poor composition, muddy color. I made a number of other bad decisions, too, such as setting up so that I was looking into the bright light coming off the water, which made me squint all morning and gave me a doozey of a headache later on. Maybe I painted so much the week before I broke something…like my art brain. No idea, but it was a disappointment, I can tell you, and the result went straight into my Portfolio of Shame. But there’s always next week!