My favorite part of Stockbridge Falls is that there were blossoms right next to the creek. Somehow when I pictured doing this waterfall project, I thought that by visiting the sites during the late spring/early summer that there would be a lot of blossoms within the shots. Surprisingly that didn’t seem to be the case. This is one of the only locations that fell into that vision and so I made sure that the reference photos I took included the beautiful blossoms.
The other thing that I particularly liked about creating this painting was playing with the texture of the big, wet rocks and how the water created a visual trail from one corner of the painting to the other.