by Carol McIntyre on 9/1/2009 12:01:51 PM
Early stages of applying paint
Creating technical challenges for myself is a constant. Besides changing my approach to painting, as I mentioned earlier, I am also attempting to apply the correct value and color of paint on my first try. This is not easy to do, particularly since I tend to go back and re-apply paint. The problem with doing the latter, is that the painting can look over-worked and/or muddy. In this painting I basically have one chance on the background mountains and I am happy with my results! 
In the photo, you can see that I have started to vary the colors in the grasses and that the trees in the mid-ground are a variety of greens. I have maintained some white areas because I want the pure colors of the wildflowers to show. If you compare this stage of the painting with the reference photo, you can see that I am not going to give the mountain areas a lot of detail, because I want to "push" them way back to give that feeling of deep distance.
At this stage I am still working with my 1" brush and a 1/4" egbert (very extra long filbert) brush.
Are you starting to see and feel the foreground, middle ground and backgrounds?
...to be continued.
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