Another wonderful day of plein air painting in Winters, CA. We met at the coffee shop and went out early to Pleasants Valley where we enjoyed the warm summer-like morning temperatures. It is so quiet out here, that it seems you can hear someone speak from miles away. There are deer and other critters scurrying around. It is a communion with nature.
I have found many new greens from mixing pthalo-blue with raw sienna, new gamboge, or burnt sienna. The green shades are always a challenge and it is mixing that makes the different ones. Once they are down I sometimes add more blue while they are still wet to create darker shades. Adding red to them creates almost a black for cast shadows.
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