25 out of 90, “Road to Ouray”
15 x 22 watercolor on 300lb Arches cold press. Today, I am back in the mountains again, and this demonstration is pretty similar in colors to the one a few days ago. I am really trying to push the mountains way back in the painting by having everything in front of them be darker richer and for the most part warmer. I layered the colors on the mountain ridges to get a nice feeling of overlap and I do think it works pretty well. The field in the foreground has a repeat of all of the colors in the mountains, but it is just really heavy on the warm tones. When painting snow capped mountains go pretty slow and make sure to soften a few edges on the dark shadow areas. The shadows are painted with cobalt blue, burnt sienna, and cobalt violet and I painted with an 8 round, each mark is important but treat them with a variety of edges, hard, soft and textured.
