Yesterday when I posted a photo of this painting, I said that it was finished. But when I woke up today, I realized that I wanted to adjust the values to create more of a contrast between the green mountains in the foreground and the blue mountains in the distance. So I used some transparent washes to create the difference in value: white washes to make the distant mountains paler and blue-green washes to darken the mountains that are closer. I don't know if this will make any difference to anyone but me, but I think it looks better. This painting was inspired by a photo that I took last summer near Central City, Colorado (posted here Oct. 18, 2018). This is acrylic used with water on a cradled panel, 16 x 20. It is part of my "Mountain Daydream" series, inspired by the Colorado mountains. This is going to be one of my entries in the December show at Galatea Fine Arts (www.galateafineart.com).
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