You must be completely organized within your reach, the essentials. Don't lose time fussing about locating colors, brushes etc. It will take numerous bad days to have a fairly successful time. I have experienced sometimes for no particular reasons a good day and then when one expects the ideal, which seldom does present itself one has a poor time.
Try a study when the weather is low, a kind of dullness will often lead to a better reading of different planes of color, lights and darks are more apparent. Lights and values do not change so rapidly. Weather can be an important advantage
Learn to think in a crisis: this takes many years of life. However, too much thinking takes the edge off the first excitement, which means a lot for the fresh quality one desires. One cannot expect too much, but if the attack is strong and direct, your efforts will have heart
Have your palette set up before you begin, develop the habit of checking it each day. Often the last minutes of a particular light are the most rewarding
Quick action and thinking ahead for the attack are essential to the quick sketch, quick impressions
The importance of being ready to spot the moment and go for the moments, [is] sometimes impractical. Don’t try too much, go for a small bit. Get to love a place
- notes, May 9, 1977