It’s catch up time again!
This week the focus was simplifying the major landscape elements. We were challenged to do a painting, selecting five key parts and to work out how to simplify them.
I went out to the Ankeny Wildlife Refuge and set up on Eagle Marsh for a couple hours of painting.
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- Reference photo (start)
It was so much fun, I decided to do another version.
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- Evening is beginning to hit the marsh.
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- No geese in this version.
In both versions I struggled to get the water to “lie flat.”