landscape lessons.
Almost done. As a wanna-be oil landscape artist, I imagine I'll have all number of pretty landscape pictures. Some I may even do more than once. I tend to like single-word names because I like to challenge myself. But ultimately, I may just name my paintings by numbers. Anyway. I take lots of pictures of pretty views. Seeing pretty views is one thing. Seeing one that's worthy of a composition and some paint is a whole other thing. My first finished painting will be from a photograph I took from near the northern end of the Black Canyon trail in Arizona. I was attempting a 60K for the third time on this trail, and for the 2nd time I was coming off an illness. I did not finish. Once I realized I wasn't going to finish, I simply relaxed and took some pictures. This is one of them. I started out by toning my canvas, and I think this may be the secret for me. I love the way the color peeks...