Morning, Afternoon, Evening

Painters in the past have done series of the same subject in order to delve into color, value and lighting--think, Monet's haystacks. A few years back I tried a few small series of sketches--usually three--in an attempt to do the same kind of study. The main point was to capture the light--color, intensity, shadow effects and all that--at different times of day, in oil paint. These were 6x8 gesso panels and there was a time limit of an hour, start to finish.