Scottish Highlands _ Part 2

I worked on this painting today, adding more texture and color.  I worked the sky, the mountains, and the stream.  I still need to work the fore ground and middle ground to add details of rocks and some trees along the stream line.

Lazuli Bunting - Lstly Finished

I saw this bird for the first time back in Utah a few weeks ago, so I decided to paint and small study of one.  You can see the block-i  with the basic colors.  I adjusted the background with washes of green, yellow and orange to grey it out.  I then added the feather detail and claws to the Bunting.

Oak Tree Sketch with three colors

A little experiment with three colors of colored pencils.  Two shades of orange and a black pencil.  Nice to be done with the work week and to get something done I like.

Spring Valley

I have been working on this for a while and I went over this again today.  I reworked the colors of the sky, mountains, and I tried to fix the trees.  I am not satisfied with the colors and shapes on this one.  This is not my original design but one more for the practice.

Happy Father's Day

Some of my earliest memories are going Fishing for Rainbow trout in the Northern part of Colorado. So I usually do the Fishing theme for my Father's Day card to my Dad.

Grass Study - Part 2

I readdressed this small Oil study and added more of the grass and started to refine the structure and the colors to move this beyond the block-in stage.

Summer Sunset on the River

Tonight's post is as the title says, "Summer Sunset on the River."  I had done an initial block-in on this but I was not happy with it and set this aside.  I pulled it out and changed the cloud blocking the suns color and glazed a thin layer of orange to the water to get a better composition.  It still needs some small changes but it is better than when I started with it.