With a loud sigh of relief I stand back from the easel and look at the finished painting...the result of my week long effort. I'm satisfied with what I see, until I'm not. A few days go by and I realize what it is that bothers me; the painting needs something to help establish scale and distance.
So I add the building and a few trees, followed by another sigh of relief, and all is well, until it is not.
The very dark mountains "don't work". They need to be lighter, like this....
Finally I'm done. The lighter mountains have made a difference. But have they made it a better painting? That was yesterday. Today I'm thinking I've gone to far, and the value of the mountains need to be somewhere between the very dark and the too light. I'll have to think about that for a while.
1 comment:
I think somewhere between the light and the dark of the mountains. Burnt Sienna vs Burnt Umber? More red than brown or gray?
Sue H.
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