I love landscapes where sun light picks out isolated parcels of detail.
It is an amalgam of a couple of photos to which I added an ambiguous skyline to deepen the mystery.
For me, the trickiest part was the dark mass of clouds on the right. I mixed colours on the paper and reduced the tone towards the left. Then I blended clouds into the land on the right, reserving areas of light on the left and middle. In hindsight, to get a smoother area of dark, I might have been better going in with a single wash in the sky area and then dabbed out to get the the highlights. Despite that, I like the simplicity of it.
Nearly as difficult as predicting the weather.
Other landscapes are available for sale on my website: grahammcquadefineart.com
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