“Country Lane”
This painting took me a little more time than I expected but it was worth the effort although it is still not a very good painting. I scraped a lot of the darks back to tinted canvas using a palette knife and it really helps with the color harmony and a unity of surface inside the transparent darks. I like the dark areas, and some of the grass in the foreground and in both of these areas I really worked at modifying the surface by lightly scraping the color back and then reapplying more color on top. I saw this technique demonstrated by a fabulous oil painter Roger Dale Brown and it has caused a big change in how I approach the initial phases of my oils.