Last night, spent 2 hours on this painting knowing that the tractor in the foreground would be moved today at 5 a.m. It was. I took photo references--so how to work with the photo and not lose the atmosphere of being one site... Colors here are a little overexposed. As usual, became lost while painting, trying to reduce the shapes, while thinking how to make the landscape believable. Can a viewer walk in the grass? My brain needs to register what works even faster--the darker parts create stability, but I have to be careful about too much value. Yellow in the foreground captures the feel of the evening. Next correction, the purple trees in the back. What color are they really? What shape? Tonight, 5:30 p.m. in the heat. I'm hydrating now.
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