Reservation Beach Light, 16 x 12, resurfaced pastelbord

Here is another painting done on a resurfaced board. It’s from our December trip to Massachusetts.  The board was all gold and I decided that I needed to do a partial underpainting, so I used hard pastel to fill in the areas from the trees down and applied alcohol. It made it a lot easier to keep this area dark.  In the sky, I pretty much covered up the surface. But I liked working on the rough board, which made the bushes and sand in foreground quite easy to do.  I may do this larger and would make one change. There is a tree in the back between the gap in the dark trees that is about the same in size and color to the sunlit grasses just below it.  Something need to change here!  Otherwise, I was pretty happy with it.