Six Sentence Sunday, 11 September 2011 (The Lost Pissarro)

She painted. Outside, the sun crossed the sky. Under the unchanging light, she painted and fought the difficulties. The impressionist method meant doing it all at once: light and dark, hue and chroma all balanced at once. Not like the academic method, with the monochrome under-painting that upheld the structure of light and dark so that color could be added as another layer of information. No, this was all at once, immersing oneself in the whole problem in one blow.