LJ and NJ

In my last post i mentioned that i had struggled with getting the color to “work” — especially all that orange. Both before and after the posting i kept trying to figure out just what all that orange was actually doing. Was it in part part of the rock, or was it all reflected light from the sun? Following the posting, i continued to try to meet the challenge, but eventually i took a good look at the reference photo and the painting and decided, “enough! “. It was clearly just not going to work. So i took a different approach — decided i would make the painting with a softer touch, replace the oranges with muted pinks, add plenty of color to the sky, show pinkish reflections in the water and especially on the mountain face, add some pink to the lighted side of the house, and basically pretend it’s now about a sunset where the light is beginning to fail but where there is still lovely color from the setting sun.