There were several things that happened with this painting that are so 'not me'. First, I decided that I wanted to go big! All that I had when the urge came upon me to paint this painting was several 16" X 20" canvases so I decided to use two of them side by side. The other thing that I decided was that I wanted to deviate from actual colours and that I wanted a yellow sky. I also experimented with mixing the colours directly on the canvas which I feel gives it more depth. The original plein air painting was done in early June but I ended up with fall colours instead and I like it!!!
So why the deviations? I think that I was influenced by a couple of factors: This painting was done soon after participating in an art show where several people suggested that I do some bigger paintings. Also, at the time I had been looking at other artist's blogs and books which were a great inspiration to me to do something different from my usual.
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