LJ and NJ

I worked at home this past week doing color mixing to see if i could match the colors the teacher was going to prescribe.  Brought the fruits of this work into class, with notes on what I’d tried.  My mixes for the sky were good; for the barn, pretty good; for the mountains too dark.  So got some assistance “fixing” that effort, and in class began painting, sky and clouds first.  Then moved down to the mountains.  All this represents just a first layer; I’ll be adding to it.  At the beginning of this class i asked Marianne if she was going to suggest i put a dark layer down on which i would then paint all the grasses.  She said yes, and suggested i use a “wash” (thin layer, paint watered down with mineral spirits) of Burnt Sienna.  As you can see, it isn’t all that even, but that won’t matter in the end.  Next week I’ll see about starting on those grasses, unless i decide to work on the barn.