Looking Glass Creek, Mt. Pisgah, NC
This is a WIP a Work In Progress that I am working on...I guess you all will get to follow the progress. It's 20x30 so it's going to take a while to finish it. I certainly would HATE to mess it up. I used the usual colors...aurelin, raw sienna, cerulean blue plus some dark purples made with indigo and vermilion as well as cobalt purple. I also made greens with the green hematite and that green gold from Holbein that I NEVER can remember. Rocks are zoitite mixed with cobalt. Lovely transparent grey!!
For those of you who did not read the first post about this WIP, this is how I have done it SO far!!
First I drew it, then I masked the trees and some of the leaves...NO ALOT of the leaves. Also the reflection on the water.
Next I washed in the sky with cerulean...very pale wash. I daubed in the tree leaves with a green mix on a sponge. I also daubed on some yellows and golds with the sponge.
Detail
Then I washed over the green by wetting the greens down with my brush...not adding more green...I did that on just SOME of them. I washed some purples over areas of the green to make the darks in the rhododendrons. The purples were very wet and thinned in some areas more than others. I washed the yellows down with a nice light grey to give some shadows to it.
Detail
After that I started daubing in yellows and lime greens in the tree tops.
After that I painted the leaves along the rivers edge...raw sienna with some purples and golds added.
I added LOTS of rocks. Zoitite and cobalt blues with purple now and then. The rocks still need alot more work...the trees just a little...next up...hmm the water??! I dont know. I will think about that tomorrow!!
OH and I got a fabulous new car today!! A Prius...I LOVEEEE it!!
Thanks for looking!!
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