Reflections (Oil Bar Painting as of August 4, 2013)

Reflections (Oil Bar Painting as of August 4, 2013), a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

Here is my painting as it looked on August 4. (I am a day behind in my posts.) I am using oil bars to paint this scene, based on a photo that I took at Bradley Palmer State Park, in Topsfield, MA. But several people have asked if this is a tropical scene. Although I always daydream about Brazil, this is actually the Massachusetts rain forest! So yesterday, with the composition in place, I worked on making the colors a bit "cooler". I toned down the lime green in the foliage to a sage green, and put more blue and gray tones in the water. I also used a ruler to straighten out the horizon line on the left as well as one of the trees.