On Golden Pond - A Work in Progress

Today I put in some of the under painting in for this piece (see postings on 30 October 2011 and 08 October 2013).

The sky was painted using a wash of cobalt blue deep leaving some lighter areas just above the distant hills. A darker wash of the same blue was used to paint the water leaving a few lighter areas. As the water area was drying a little burnt sienna was brushed below where the distant hills will be and below the middle ground.

Using light red and raw sienna to create a warm glow of colour for the distant hills, which for the most part will be covered up behind the dark greens of the pines and cedars in the middle ground.

Raw sienna was put into the middle ground and then a pale wash of burnt sienna was put over top of that while it was still wet for the middle ground.

I will post this painting at a later date once I put in the dark greens and remove the masking fluid.