A series of paintings created outdoors during a late-summer residency at the Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on Cape Cod. I was exploring how far I could push the softness and transparency of gouache (a water-based paint typically used & valued for its high opacity). As the warm scented breezes and sunlight gently washed over my bare arms, I gently washed my highly-diluted gouaches over the soft paper surface, experimenting not only with the transparency, but also with how much brush-stroke texture I could record with a paint thinned to water-like consistency. Surprisingly much, it turns out.