I’m back to what I really love to paint–houses!  I saw this one in rural Pennsylvania last Friday and painted it on Wednesday.  The color of the roof was what I can only call butterscotch!  But the photo of it came out white. So I had to try to remember what I saw. I took a number of shots from different perspectives and liked this one best because it gave me enough foreground, plus the distance in the upper right corner.  What excited me, in addition to the roof, was the array of leaves both in front of the house and to the upper right.

Doing a picture like this is complicated because of the layers. I actually used a lot of local color in the underpainting on this one. But I used aqua under the roof and blue under the house. The sky and house are two values of red violet. I added some warm blue into it in spots and into the bushes to pick up the blue in the distant hills.  I used my softest pastels for the leaves, progressing from greens to yellow greens and several values of yellow.  I softened the background to the right of the house with various blue and red violets and added hints of orange and green to give it depth.

House with Golden Roof, 16 x 20, UART 500