42nd painting, still working at it, that was my aim

I'm really proud of myself for sticking to this blog painting thing I'm doing, I've been painting everyday, some days I get more than 1 but most times I just get the one, even then, I'm still painting everyday, and that's a good thing, I'm very happy with that.

Today's painting is from a group of photo's I took when my friend Carol and I went to Kings Mill in Leonidas, MI, a really great day, and I'm sure I'll be painting more from that group, at some point.

It is a basic green and gold painting with lots of darks for the foreground water and fence, the foliage was really dark and I liked the shape of it so it stays dark to emphasize the back lighting, I painted this on the clayboard and enjoyed the simplicity of the composition, I painted this scene once before and my daughter bought it for a gift for her boss, so it is hanging at Doctor Berry's office (I think, I haven't been there lately to see it, oops). So, I laid in the basic shapes of the trees starting in the background and coming forward with yellow green (I did lay a light value of violet behind, then decided to paint it green), the tree trunks were a gray with some brown mixed in and the dark green was laid in with a middle value of green then jumped it up at a later time. the water is brown and gold where the light hits it and purple and brown where it was dark, the foreground was just a bit of grass and some of it overlapped so I like the overlap and that joined the very close foreground with the farther side of the bank and thus to the background. I really like this one and hope you do to.