First plein air this year

St Patrick's Day. Its a beautiful day and I went out this morning to paint a view near by. The sun was very bright and I did not bring my umbrella. Big mistake. No matter how I turned the easel I was always in the sun and my values went to hell in a hand basket. A real scrapper. Too bad. A lesson learned. Hopefully tomorrow I will remember my lesson and produce something better.

Red Sun Blue Snow

The big painting is finished as far as I am concerned. The ultramarine shadows and cad red spot of a Sun plus a little cad yellow pale mixed with white on the left hand hill set it off. I added a glaze of pale yellow/white with liquin to make a fog mist effect half way up the trees. Had to wait for the paining to dry first.