Ponderosa Pine Study - Part two

I have shown a lot of block ins of paintings with promises to should progress and changes made.  So tonight I am going to follow-up.  You can see the changes made as I sort through the problems I see with this study.  I have improved the sky's transition from upper to lower horizon.  I extended the top of the tree and I made improvements to the shadowy under foliage and I have begun to define the foreground.  The Aspens will need a lot of work and I want to add a back ground Fir tree off center between the Ponderosa and the Outlined Aspen.   This will have to wait till tomorrow.

Ponderosa Pine Study

I am working pin improving my painting skills and I am doing a series of landscape studies.   This morning I laid in the initial blocks of a Ponderosa Pine and Aspen study.  I will need to blend the sky better and refine the Aspens against the sky.  I will loop back on these studies and will past the after pictures when I am satisfied with them.

Tree Sketch

Today, I worked on this tree sketch.  This is the basic block in for this small study, I plan on working on the values in the sky and improving the brushing in the middle ground.

Giant Sketch

Today's sketch is from the book Giants.  It is fun book and filled with great sketches of the imagined views of Giants.  They are nice thing to practice sketching skills and to just enjoy the feel of the pencil on the page.

I hope you have had a great Christmas!

Merry Christmas, I hope you have enjoyed the day and have spread the peace and good will towards all men!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Eve!  I hope you all are enjoying the evening with family and friends.

Plein Air - Kent Island

Another Plein Air Oil painting study tonight.  I did this in November on Kent Island durning a class.  Kent Island is a very picturesque location on the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland.  It is beautiful year round but, especially so in the Fall.