LJ and NJ

This is the painting i am working on at home, without any teacher input.  Consequently, there are quite a few things i am figuring out as i go.  So this week i did some more work on the sky, began working on reflections in the water, and today started to figure out how to do the silhouetted trees and surround.  As you can see from the reference photo, it’s quite a challenge to put this part together, as all the detail is washed out.  So i am kind of making up part of it.  This is just the first go-round, so i will keep working to get it to “work”.  The part of the sky which in the reference photo appears as white, as do some of the reflections, is really all “blown out”  so i had to make up something that would come across as a bit more realistic.