Well this project has been much more difficult than i expected. Trying to purposely paint not what i see but an impressionistic impression (of the bottom half of the painting) has taken much thinking and rethinking and repainting. I keep slipping back into “realism”, or at least my facsmile of it. This week in class teacher helped me understand better how to go about it. Unfortunately, though i made good progress in class once i got the hang of a new brush stroke, i proceeded to undo most of my progress the next day. So — the photo I’m posting is post- and pre-progress!
The brush stroke Ed suggested was in relation to the rocks . He said forget about them being “rocks” and just let the paint brush go, but “pressing, moving and lifting”.
On the more “realistic” (upper) parts of the painting, i continue to try to get the values better.
LJ and NJ 
It really is looking impressionistic to me. Whatever you are doing with the brush strokes, I experience this picture as dark, moody, almost forbidding. Is that what you are trying to convey?
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Thx for your comment. Well, i guess “dark,.. forbidding” is in the eye of the beholder. Interesting: I actually thought it was getting to be too “light”. In class Ed wanted me to put sun highlights on the rocks. When i got home i thought they were too bright, so next day i thought i would add a glaze on top of the highlights, remembering as soon as i did that you can’t get away with that if the paint is wet, which it was. That’s when i lost the much better shape of the tops of the rocks i was referring to in Post. Anyhow, thanks again for taking time to give me feedback!
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