Seeburg Hotel View

This painting was painted in plein air in Interlaken, Switzerland during Mike's May 2011 trip there.  The hotel was where he and his wife stayerd while threre and had a great deck with an unobstructed view of the beautiful Lake Brienz.

All of the paintings Mike completed this trip were done using water soluble oils from Winsor-Newton.  Mike had never used them before but did on this trip to avioid the pitfalls of using  mineral spirits or other turp that could not be transported by airplane.  During Mikes last trip to italy five years before he met with problems when trying to find a brush cleaning solution in the small towns of Italy.  These water soluble oils were a pleasant surprise and worked well.  Not well enough, however, to change to them completely!