After a visit to the Perth Museum where I was able to look at landscapes by local artists I decided to approach this painting in a different way. The light and weather in Scotland being so changeable (especially in the Highlands), I needed to work more quickly and directly. This was a bit daunting because I am already a speedy and direct painter. I do not do much preparatory drawing, and I don’t do an underpainting at all. However, Scotland was teaching me that I wasn't fast enough. “Work fast and small” became my mantra.

Sometimes I try to blend the color not by mixing but by overlapping and crossing brush strokes. With this painting, I did not worry about the edges where one color butts up against another. A layperson might have looked out that window and thought to themselves, “Snow is white, isn't it?” Well, yes... and no.