Out on a hike with David, the beauty of the afternoon sunlight streaming through the forest caught my eye, and I snapped this photo with my phone.
Back at home, I sketched the tree trunks and the road lightly in pencil, and began painting this 5" x 8" piece.
I used a mixture of phthalo blue & quinachridone gold for the deeper, cooler greens, and Winsor lemon & French ultramarine blue for the lemony yellows.
The gravel road, the shadows and the tree trunks were painted with varying mixtures of French ultramarine blue & burnt sienna, which makes a beautiful array of colors from blue grays to dark, earthy browns.
I love how, as the artists, we get to choose the details within a scene to paint. Select your own favorite parts of any landscape scene, and focus your attention on them, allowing the rest to be abstract shapes.
I hope you get to paint, draw or create in some other way this week.
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