This pallet knife oil on canvas painting was started, maybe, a couple years ago. After seeing a picture on this site I was inspired to do another small series. While waiting for the skies to dry on those canvases it suddenly hit me what I needed to do to finish this aspen series. Happens like that sometimes. I think the longest I took to finish a painting was seven years. It took me that long to resolve the problems I had set for myself. A few paintings have been finished in less than an hour. The outlook for finishing this aspen series look dismal. Sometimes I have to throw the paintings away. Thought about that on this series until it just hit me like a bolt of lightening. I finished five of these in one day. You see, over that two year period I had learned how I wanted the mountain shadows to look and how to work the pallet knife to get the textures I wanted and how to overlay the paint colors. I believe this is painting number three. I finished this painting on December 23rd, 2017.