Acrylic on Panel - 7 x 5 inches
Usually when I paint outdoors, I become overwhelmed with the range of greens in a scene. I'm always amazed at the amount of orange one can add to green colors and still have them read as green. Timothy Horn is a master of this.
Most often, I finish a landscape piece, clean my brushes, and then step back and see I've got it completely wrong. I see all the darks as being equal, but they can't be. Ditto for the green shades lit by the sun and those in shadow. I just can't get it right.
So this time I thought I'd work on just that, and not worry about composition or making a good painting.
The tree in the foreground really stood out in real life. I tried so hard to make it work, by making the background trees lighter, cooler, looser etc. I can't tell you how much white went into those background tones, but I think it is still, ultimately, a failure. There's still not enough separation.
There are good, happy moments, better than usual, but still a long way to go.
