HARMONY IN THE Landscape
Unless you do so exclusively in autumn or winter, painting the landscape in temperate climates will inevitably involve the use of green. If you’re not particularly bothered about realism, it is possible to substitute greens for an alternative range of colours. But if you want to produce a fairly representational painting, then you will have to negotiate the vast array of different hues and tones of green found in nature.
The photograph that I have based this masterclass upon was taken on a summer’s evening and, as is common with a photograph, much of the actual colour hasn’t been recorded, particularly where the shadows appear simply as dark holes.
In the painting I have tried to establish an acceptable harmony of colour, and balance of tonal values that makes sense
