Mountain Path Study

 8x6in. oil on Ampersand Gessobord - click to purchase here

There was so much about this Paint Coach Patreon study that drew me in. The warm mountains in the background, the verdant dappled light in the grass, the gray path and the wildflowers in the shadows really wowed me. I really liked that this tutorial looked difficult - the cool thing about it is that it didn't end up being that difficult in the end! I learned a lot about hue and temperature play in this study. I will admit that greens are pretty difficult for me to get right, so I'm happy to have followed along to a study that emphasized the greens.

Lost Home

 

8x6in. oil on Ampersand Gessobord - NFS

This is the second out of the four plein air paintings for the October challenge! This is my first attempt at dappled light and it's definitely tough. I had a lot of fun making this and the weather was so nice. I had a kind of tough time editing the color balance of this image to match the painting itself, my phone's camera leans heavily blue. I had a bit of a hard time painting the dappled light on the ground, but once I internalized that it's just color blocks against a darker background, I feel like I started to understand the subject better.