Abandoned

Painted this morning at the abandoned Dairy Farm in Mansfield,OH. It is falling into disrepair! More deteriorated than last year. vines growing, weeds growing, etc. It was a beautiful day to paint. I started with a Quinacradone Rose tone then blocked in my darks, Then started mixing greens, dark to light, then the whites, not really white but blue, lavender,green lighted by white, then the brick shadows and lights and lastly the highlights and light leaves. Did the grass and path last. A fun painting, one I have wanted to do since last year.

Farm House

This was this week's homework: to do a landscape with green and trees. I have followed Johannes rules, but my next landscape will be toned red if I am going to have greens in it. Began using the Yellow Ochre Pale and hardly any bright yellows. Trying to remember all the rules. To marry colors, to not put the grass the same as the trees, hard and soft edges to make the trees round, make each tree have character, warm and cool, values oh and fit fun in there!!