From the post office

When Canada Post’s striking employees came back on the job last week, I rushed off to the post office to mail a package. The post office in my town is on a busy commercial street but for the first time, I noticed these little red buildings in a field behind some stores. I guess I never noticed them in summer but in autumn they are quite striking with the yellow trees behind them.

I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to do some fall sketching so that I could try out my Lintner palette in the car. I used the universal clamp it comes with to attach it to my steering wheel.

I’ve been painting from my car for over a decade, and have always set up my palette on the passenger seat. But I have to say that it was pretty cool to have the palette and water containers just a few inches away from my painting surface. I keep a third water container in the cup holder between the seats so I can have a really big water reservoir to rinse my bigger brushes, but it’s really useful to have the smaller containers much closer than they used to be. And the clamp has two ball-heads on it so I can level the palette and keep my washes from dripping all over the car. No doubt I will still have paint splatters on the seats, but hopefully fewer than before.