LJ and NJ

I’m continuing to select projects that encourage me to keep practicing two-point perspective. This last week I selected a reference photo which I found online of a barn in — Slovenia (!) — set against a beautiful mountain backdrop. I’ve pretty much blocked in the painting and have done some of the initial layers on the barn . Now working on adding details to the mountains to make them look three-dimensional. Started with the large shapes but soon will have to make some decisions about how much detail — not too much — to add. I will add the fence and trees after the paint on the grass and that big brown area on the left are dry.

I dd alter the perspective of “my” barn, so that I’m not looking up at it, as is the case in the reference photo. That was partly because I didn’t want to have so much grassy area in the front part of the painting but still wanted to keep the fence.