I had the most fun ever. I felt so Charles Russell doing this painting. And I felt that I really got the whole color wheel thing right. I was actually getting the answers right when I would ask Margee if this color was going to work and she would say YES. Yeah! I really feel I have learned alot. I gessoed and toned my canvas then I sort of indicated where the objects were going to be. Then I mixed viridian and cad orange and cerulean and ultramarine which went everywhere I wanted to have green.I put bluish shadows on the side of the tipi. I purposely put no light color on the tipi because I wanted it as white as possible.The background trees were more of the green mixture above with more ultramarine and cad red and orange. I roughly blocked in the trees so as to have a loose feel.I used this where ever I thought a dark would be. The blue toned foliage was cerulean blue, green, ochre and white. Again I tried to be loose and painterly. I pushed here and pulled there and worked to get the lights in the right place. Never did decide how to handle the top of the painting. Margee suggested really warm cad oranges and red and yellow to make the tops of the trees glow. It was great. I brushed a little ochre and yellow on the tipi then wiped the excess off. I liked it as it was. All in all I like what I did and feel I came close to that early morning late afternoon light that I love so much.
