Saturday, September 8, 2012

Aspen Run

14.5x10.5 watercolor on gessoed matboard done this afternoon from one of my New Mexico photos of a row of aspens glistening gold in the morning sun.  I've exaggerated the background adding more darks as if there were green foliage behind.  A highway was in between that and the trees so I have made that more blue as if it was water.  Not as many red leaves were there in real life either.

2 comments:

Jane said...

Nice!

Christiane Fortin said...

This looks like fall in Québec. I imagine myself back to a tree reading a book. It's cool Kay love the colors.

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