Marine Layer - Salinas River Channel - Stacks of Color

Brush strokes, and "not blending."
What follows is a quote from What Painting Is, by James Elkins, in which he discusses Monet's brushwork: "It is not possible to reproduce the effect of a Monet painting by jousting mechanically with canvas, jabbing a dot of paint here and planting another one there, until the surface is uniformly puckered in Monet's signature texture." Elkins delves much further,  but the message for me was to pay attention to the direction and purpose of each brush stroke.
I left the strokes intact, with minimal mixing of color, and tried to avoid repeating the same movements. Maybe it is a physical and mental reorientation to establish a channel through which the visual can pass.
As I was setting up, I saw the layers of clouds above merging with the ocean below, the horizon lost between, the waves shimmering with light and seeming to drift both north and south. I knew I had only moments to try to capture this light.

The other exercise that contributed to this morning's focus was this youtube video from Mark Carder, https://genevafineart.com. In this video, Mark Carder proposes we "paint ugly", get the values in place, don't blend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Qbw7Wlsgc&feature=share