Olive Field in France

[Grapes]

I started checking files to find a landscape to post - a landscape that I've painted in the past yrs. I had hard time finding one. They are all pleinairs. Well, that needs to change. I used to paint lot of studio landscapes but then pleinair came to the picture and somehow I never painted studio landscapes anymore.

This piece is also started as pleinair in Provence, France but I couldn't finish it there because we were just passing by. Besides I was painting with my cat. To me it's now a little bit like a fairytale/not real looking landscape but I like the colors as I hardly ever would use these colors to a landscape.
It's an oil painting on wood, 25x35 cm.

Thanks for looking

 

[Joy]

Very pleasing and cat approved! The sky is especially well done.

 

[Donna T]

This is very nice, Grapes, and I like the colors, even if you changed them to create a different mood. Just getting a start in the field is so much better than relying on a photo alone. You made some kind of connection and I think that always comes through. Maybe your cat will allow a few quick sketch sessions so you can do this again.

 

[Grapes]

Maybe your cat will allow a few quick sketch sessions so you can do this again.

She certainly will but that most probably will be some other olive field in France.

Joy & Donna, thank you!

 

[Enyaw]

If your foreground fruit tress had a regression in depth color this would be one of the best I have seen from you. Opinion only of course.

 

[bethany]

I like this a lot- really well done!

 

[Jo Castillo]

Beautiful. I love your plein air work.

 

[Jade]

Beautifully done Grapes! My cat is indoors (as he has diabetes) but he also accompanied me when I draw!

 

[Grapes]

Thanks for your comments Wayne, Bethany, Jo and Jade!
Wayne, now that it's dry, I could do depth with glazing .. ('thinking ... ').

 

[Enyaw]

Don’t ruin it on my account because it still works but it could work better as you would greatly enhance the dept of the whole as the middle and back have great depth.

 

[Grapes]

I use 'try different things' for learning. With oils it's impossible to ruin anything you can just work forever and eventually you get it right anyway thanks for pointing out the depth. When I was working on it I had hard time choosing how to paint the distant trees without loosing too much light in the painting .. my paintings can turn out so dark too often ...
... maybe direction of the light could be better too in this painting.

 

[Enyaw]

You can keep the values just play warm against cold to create the depth. It just has to flow into the greens, and then blues that you have in the forest and mountain hills. Think of a gradient.