In late spring the South Fork was high down near North Bend but in perfect shape off the Denny Creek exit around the Asahel Curtis Picnic Area.   I took a few trips there with my tenkara rod to catch the native cutthroat there, some of the prettiest cutts around in their spawning colors that time of year.   This was a nearly perfect day in the high country only a few miles from the headwaters of the South Fork.

This was my first very green painting so far and I struggled, as always, with the greens.   I used Sap Green, Cascade Green, Chromium Green Oxide, Alizarin Crimson, Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow and Ultramarine Blue to get the various shades of green.  There will be quite a few more west-side landscapes coming up in the next month so maybe I’ll get over my fear of green by the end of this month.