I’m done for today. The sun is out and now we have frigid weather–in March. Sigh.  HOWEVER, I’m pretty happy with the picture. There are still things I’ll tweak, I’m sure, but I decided to be done with it for today, sign it and share it with you. When I did the building on the right, I started using different colors than the houses and it looked too disjointed. But it is a barn/shed and not a house. I tried to resolve the problem by adding majenta to the roof and some of the warm blue green to the shadowed sides of the buildings. The grass was quite simple–just slightly different layers of green Giraults. I added some majenta and browns to the lower grass to give the sense of something in the grass, such as bugle. I also added the fence posts leading that lead into the long building.  I’m really happy with the composition. The lesson to learn from this is that even if you aren’t completely happy with the colors or the way the pastels are going on the surface, it’s probably all fixable as long as the composition is OK!  I’m still not completely happy with the clouds, but they are easy to fix.  And now to the piano and the beef shank that’s been cooking all afternoon and smells wonderful!  I hope those of you in MD have enjoyed your snow day!

Hill Farm, 20 x 24, BFK Rives and Colourfix liquid primer