Ross Barbera and I visited and vowed to paint paintings of Taughannock Falls, but until now have not. Here is my effort done in acrylic over a 2 hour period at the Rockaway Artists Alliance last night. The falls actually look made up, as if a sculptor was fiddling about and just wanted to make falls with one long drop. Though I wasn't able to paint this "en plein air", I did attempt to give it that look. I found working up the space to be challenging as it is like just being inside the lip of a great empty cauldron. It is so deep that the light is poor--at the bottom of the falls--for most of the day. Then, for a few brief hours in midday, the best can be made of the sun's light. Unfortunately, I got there in the mid afternoon in late fall. Crummy light. Still the texture and strata of the stone made a interesting subject. Maybe, with luck, I'll get there again and have another chance to put this natural wonder on canvas.