Suggesting reality

Martin's vineyard on Sonoma Mountain Road here in Glen Ellen is fairly high up on the mountain, but there's still a bit to look up to from there. The Autumn colors in this backlit afternoon view combine with the cool shadows to give this painting it's full spectrum look. I'm getting looser with my application of pigments as the years roll by...I don't really want a photographic realism. Just a strong suggestion of the subject that occurs when I use the intense color of my memory combined with the reference that the camera gives me. Each new color that I introduce helps create that illusive suggestion.