With this painting I learned that I needed a larger variety of greens in my palette. When I started I had just a tube each of cinnabar green medium and terra verte — and, of course, various blues and yellows with which to mix greens. That afternoon I went to the hardware store in Provincetown, where they have a good selection of art supplies, and got a tube of Prussian green and Naples yellow to add to my arsenal. The Naples yellow allowed me to lighten my greens without them getting too yellow or chalky white.

I have returned many times to this area and painted the river, marsh and harbor from many different vantage points.