Wednesday, July 05, 2017

Scarlet Mountain (As of July 5, 2017)


Busy day today, but I managed to squeeze it a little time to work on this painting.  This is part of my "Mountain Daydreams" series,  landscapes painted from my imagination and my memories of the mountains of Colorado, my home state.  I use acrylic paint with water, in this case on a piece of watercolor paper that is 9 x 12.  Today I continued work on the sky.  I want the sky to look stormy, but I want a subtle effect, so today I used an opaque pale blue wash.  I also hit it with water and dabbed it with paper towal as it was drying, to add more complications to the sky.  To be continued...

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