New Approach

I mentioned in the last post that I might do preliminary sketches but when I actually began to do it it felt artificial. I need to get used to it. Change.

So I am going to do several sketches on canvas board. Two are going to be two different approaches to the entire painting; one where I work from the furthest away area such as sky to the grasses in the front (I have used this before), and the other will be from overall darkest areas to the middle value areas and then to the lightest (approach my teacher uses). More sketches will involve parts of the painting. I am going to try a different painting technique, too, where I use "sketchy" brush strokes.

I will post photos of my sketches as I go...