Well, after a semi-disasterous week of one majorly bad thing after another (I wasn't the only one either--was it some infrasonar storm? A full moon?), I finally got to try the idea I had read about on location.
The idea was that after the thumbnail is drawn and the values shaded in, that I should try to mix all my colors first then apply them to the canvas.
For the most part it gave me a successful piece which I think was closer to the real colors of nature than I had heretofore been able to do. And it helped me to see the colors more clearly. I had thought the small stream had a rosy tint in it from the cloudy sky, but my mind kept arguing with what I was seeing. Rose?, my mind said, incredulously. How can that be? You know that rose is only found at dawn and dusk. Nevertheless, I decided to go ahead and mix the color carefully and infuse some rose into my mix. And did you know, that water was rose and the sky, too! That taught me to believe my eyes and not what my brain was telliing me was "impossible".
The problem with this way of doing things was that I was slow and by the time I had gotten the rosy water color all done, the light was changiung. I decided not to let that bother me, though and went ahead as if the light hadn' t changed; I figured it was close, even if not right on, and I can always check and correct before applying it. Plus, I wll get faster with practice.
Then I figured out was that my brushes, especially the small flats will need to be replaced. Unfortunately.
Finally, I discovered that an underpainting can really give the picture a special glow.
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