colorado landscape artwork- Colorado Meadow Morning by Ellen Leigh

Painting progress

Landscape Painting Techniques

After looking at my photos on Saturday, I was not happy with the shadows on the meadow- they were too flat and horizontal in direction. I felt that they should be on a slight angle toward the viewer, leading the eye into the painting. So much of the day was spent reworking the shadows and meadow grasses to fit the angle I had in mind.

 
landscape painting techniques used on Colorado Meadow Morning by Ellen Leigh

 

I also added a light rosy glow to the sky along the horizon and towards the left side of the picture. It’s early morning here in the meadow, and I love that rosy glow and long shadows you get at that time of day.

 

 

The breeze ripples the grass in the meadow, like the waves on a lake.
I’ll need to add a few things to it for interest, a few clumps of shrubbery, a small tree or two and finish up with some individual grass blades, wildflowers perhaps but not a lot more. The background and middle ground are nearly complete, but not much has been done to the foreground and river, so I’ll be working on those this week too.
I hope you are enjoying watching this painting as it develops, and learning a bit about my landscape painting techniques- as always, comments are welcome!

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