Plan, Make a Bad One, Make One I Like

I went to Frontenac State Park Today. Temps in the low 40's, no mosquitos or wood ticks yet. No leaves on the trees so you can see far into the distance and you can see the shape of the terrain. I found my spot for painting and made a planning drawing and marked out the shapes in pencil and labeled with the colors (15 minutes). Then I made the very ordinary anyone-might-have-painted-this painting (45 minutes). Blah. Posted at the end.  

Then at the last minute before I packed up I decided to do one more and use only one or two colors of paint. I used my impulse purchase set of Boku-Udo Sumi watercolor (all black watercolors: reddish black, yellowish black, greenish black, bluish black, purplish black, and brownish black) and my favorite brush that Virginia thought I might like (Da Vinci Casaneo, synthetic squirrel, happily it was on sale then). I like the 2 minute painting. (That is what is at the top). 

The water looks like fog and it really was flat and shades of grey but I quit fussing on that. Paper matters. The first old lady painting was on multimedia paper in my sketchbook, the quick bluish black painting was on Fluid watercolor paper 140 lb. A much better experience. 

What does this mean for me?

1. I need to get the old lady painting out of me in a few paintings first before I paint what I want to paint? 

2. If making a 2 minute painting makes me happy them maybe I should be doing something besides painting? Maybe I'm impatient? What is the media that fits for me? I've really fallen away from acrylic and moved towards crayons and other stick types (but not soft pastels).  

3. I have this idea to do a quick painting at every State Park. But I'd have to get the old lady painting out of me first.

This is the planning drawing and the old lady painting and color testing scribbles.