I really didn't want to paint this again, but learned a lot from Tim's demo of this subject ( a demo he didn't enjoy very much, but wound up selling to my father anyway). Also, with the lack of warm tones in my palette, I thought I'd stay away from anything with too much scenery in it.
Another interesting observation came out of this. A bunch of us looked at the distant hills, trying to determine their value. Someone suggested they were the darkest thing in the scene. I mean they're really dark forest green. But as we stared directly at them, them seemed to lighten up before us, and turn a pale blueish purple. Interesting. Not sure why I chose to ignore this observation and paint 'em green though. More learning through failure!
Off to the reception for my not-at-all-warm collection at Apollo tonight. Should be fun.
This is one of my favorite pieces of yours. it's so solid and simplified and perfect. On my monitor, it looks like the greens are grayed down a bit and are sitting nicely in the background. Beautiful painting.
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