This is a landscape of my backyard. And I am doing this to aid my students who are in my landscape classes. I didn't put up my thumbnail drawing, which I always do before I paint. I need a plan of action. What is my design, what attracted me to this subject matter, where is the light coming from, how much sky, mid ground and foreground. Then I draw on the canvas with charcoal to work out other issues. The prep for the painting is ever evolving as I sketch it onto the canvas. Then I seal the charcoal with my Acrylic Matt medium and let it dry. My first round of colors are loose, gestural and lots of complimentary color combinations. I do my under laying with acrylic and let it dry over night. Then I begin to paint in oils making sure to keep checking with the balance of the painting in color, value and of course still paying attention to design. I will put up the final painting when it later this week. I love letting each color from each layer to come through the top layer of paint.

This is not quite finished and it will be a little out of order because I will post the next stage when I get to it.

Landscape