"Do not define too closely the outline of things; it is the brush-stroke of the right value and color which should produce the drawing. In mass, the greatest difficulty is not to give the contour in detail, but to paint what is within. Paint the essential character of things, try to convey it by any means whatsoever, without bothering about technique." Camille Pissarro This is what I hope to capture with my "Gestural Paintings,'" Paul Smallwood

Ive always been drawn to the ruggedness of Bear Mountain, the mountain that I looked at everyday growing up in South Boulder. However this three quarter view is a new perspective and I think more exciting then the moiuntain in frontal profile,