Day 29 - 30 Paintings - Hilltop

I'm still working on

using brighter colors.

"Hilltop" - oil on Board - 5 x 7

Maybe a bit too bright?

Day 27 - 30 Paintings - La Tour

I was thinking about Paris today.

So I painted the Eiffel Tower.

I included a watercolor that I painted sometime in the last year as well.

First the underpainting.

Then the intermediate version

Then I wanted to work on the sky

 that is always so moody and colorful.

And the little watercolor.

Day 25 - 30 Paintings - Caribbean Blue Playtime

I've been experimenting with my new tube

of Caribbean Blue paint from my recent

 transparent oils workshop with Dreama Tolle Perry.

This is probably her key pigment color

and it is quite versatile.

This has reproduced with colors that look

 a little more lurid than they actually are in person.

This blue is made with pthalo blue but somehow

it does not take over too much

and it seems to play well with the other colors.

I under painted this one with Indian yellow, Sap Green,

 Transparent Red Med., Diox. Purple and ?

Then I went over it with variations of the 

Caribbean Blue straight from the tube

and mixed with white.

It was fun to see how the next layer mixed with the 

transparents in the underpainting.

a bit, but not quite like watercolor.