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One of our walks in the Azores
First off – my painting is not this bright. I am using my new printer scanner at home and it has very little tonal control. If I had known I wouldn’t have put any yellow in the distance hill. Anyhow, the Azores are very green. This is from a walk we did round a caldera. I cheated by adding Sandra and me into the picture – when of course I was sitting across the other side of the lake painting this. Not that happy with this. Too blooby and overdone. And too bright – yuk.
This is about 10 mins into one of my favourite walks. Viv would like to guess where this is so I’ll name it in a comment. There should be a lot more foliage on the right, but after putting it in it just didn’t look right and I tried a rescue attempt. This is why the top right bit of sky is wrong – I just couldn’t get all the green out of the paper. Many other things wrong with it I know but I’ve enjoyed doing this one and there are a couple of good passages – I think
This is a walk we did some time ago with friends, it was getting dark, snow on the ground, and just the last rays of the sun lower down the fell side. I couldn’t work out at all how to show the snow when none of it was white! I think I needed to use contrast better.
This is supposed to be a combination of three walks, coast, hills and country.(That’s a stile, by the way, on the bottom right, not very clear.)
A bit under pressure this time so “knocked” this off last night. This is from my walking holiday in Wales last year on a day when it wasn’t raining.
