“Time To Rest” was painted on location to near-completion, at “Fishtown” in Leland, Michigan. It is one of several started during a plein air workshop in late Autumn, then completed at my home studio. The vacillating weather conditions during this workshop, was a study in extremes – Sunny and warm, with winds gusting to 50 MPH one day, then Brisk, bright and chilly the next, with temps falling to near-freezing. You might guess the conditions under which “Time To Rest” was painted; each time I look at the painting I am brought back to that day, sitting with my pastel box on the cold asphalt, painting this beautiful scene with fingers too frozen to hold the pastels without dropping them! 
The “resting” vessel in the painting, is part of the working fleet in this typically bustling fishing village on Lake Michigan.