Grasses near Glen Ellen

A couple sessions into this painting I realized that I hadn't shot a picture of it...so we'll start with this one. I try to get as much into the underpainting as I can when I'm starting a new piece. Working with a large (#12 or#14) long handled bristle brush and laying in thin layers of very warm color under almost everything except the sky which I tend to begin with a very light pink made of Titanium White & Permanent Rose. Then apply the cool blues & purples over and into these warms. The cool in the sky is a mixture of Cobalt Blue & T. White with a touch of Magenta.

Lots of Cadmium Yellow Dark, Raw & Burnt Sienna and Naples Yellow in the near grasses at this stage. Aloha for now, Timo