Three colors -raw umber, burnt umber and lamp black and 1 brush so far (Grumbacher 8) need to darken up a few places.  Almost there.

I'm not keeping the cold and damp feel of the original (no wonder he spent a good deal of time painting outdoors).

moving along -decided to use burnt umber  raw umber and lampblack

Sketching for a Watercolor

This photo of Childe Hassam

in his ---- studio about 1885 has fascinated me for the past year.  I've done several acrylic studies and am sketching it out 3x larger for a watercolor study. I want to practic with five grades of one or two colors (umbers)

I added an additional color wash to this, so re-post

moving along a bit more