I've subscribed to several online art newsletters and one this last week had a tutorial on painting winter sunsets. I liked the colors and thought this would be a good quick project to work on. The most interesting part was trying to put the sun in. The article mentioned painting the deep yellow and then taking an almost dry brush and sucking up the paint where the sun would be. This would leave behind the lighter yellow. Well, that didn't work at all. Inspiration came when I took the sheet of paper towel I keep for wiping off my brush and pressed it onto the paint with my finger tip. I counted to five and lifted it out and it looked great! I think I could have made the shadows of the foliage darker as there's not enough contrast with the snow.
I'm having trouble getting our scanner to pick up the colors correctly. On the first pass it missed picking up the faint shadows of the trees in the foreground so I'll need to tweak the scanner settings more.
I think next on the list is making a color wheel or two. It was hard to come up with a decent dark green for the conifer trees as well as getting good leaf brown colors.
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