Working on Landscapes

Hay has keep us going til all times of the day. My husband has broke almost all the belts on the baler and lots of other parts. This has been a rough hay season. Since it has he has asked me to cut hay with a pull behind swather. No problem; until I ran the swather into the back of his flat bed truck. Oops! Well am I fired? NO I just get to practice more.

Since I have been in the field this week I have not got anything on eBay and time is short..er than normal. So I have started worked on a few small landscapes. These are 5 X 7 and in progress.

On this first one, I am not done, but I worked wet into wet. I started by using clean water and just washing the whole sky in it. Then I started adding my dark colors all while the paint was wet. Last I added my warm colors in the same way. I need to add the land and may be a few highlights but it is mostly done.

On the next painting I did it much different. I started with the lighter colors. The yellow and oranges were added first.

Using the same color I outlined the lower cloud.

While that dried I wet the farthest area in my picture and laid a LIGHT wash of purple at top and orange at bottom.

 Then I worked on the clouds with ultramarine blue and purple. Trying to stay away from my wet warm colors I worked around everything.

With that to wet I went to my 3rd painting and add the sky. Wetting the paper I added a cerulean blue, purple and Payne's gray. My goal was to leave a little white to imply clouds.

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