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I challenged myself with rocks and water.  This is a view of a small canyon that we passed on our way to picking mushrooms. Done from a photo.

I struggle with rocks.  I find the piece awfully GREEN, although this is coastal British Columbia in the autumn.  As well, the actual scene was pretty well all green and grey - again, very BC.  I want to learn to inject colour into my landscape paintings.

Since I wasn’t happy with the painting - it was too green, there wasn’t enough variety in values, and it was too monotonal - I tried again, this time with a small, quick thumbnail.

Better.  Now I wanted to try a square format again and try for even more variety of colour:

I think I’m happiest with this one.

So, that’s the evolution of a painting.