I completed another painting from the cranberry bog today, this time a bigger one–16 x 20. I didn’t take a photo of the underpainting but I’m including the photograph that I worked from.  My one big change is to add a road that leads into the picture and towards the background. Looking at the two, I can also see that the trees don’t seem quite as large. I was trying hard not to divide the painting in two!  For the underpainting, I used primarily local color–dark blue, blue greens and greens, with aqua under the road area. I used  dark greens in the foreground, which made it easy to work on top.  The sky and flowers were done with Schminckes and other soft pastels. Everything else is Girault.  I found it very easy to do the grasses in the foreground with various Giraults, then add the softer pieces of yellow on top.  This might not have been so easy with a softer pastel used in the greens.  This time I also chose to include the trees in the underpainting and liked the effect.  It’s so nice to paint spring/summer!  Low 60s here today and it’s feeling like spring at last.  I think I may do more paintings from this group of photos.

June Yellows, 16 x 20 Pastelbord

Reference photo