This is a WIP of my first Plein Air-try. I did the sketching on site as well as laying in the core values. It was a fairly cool fall day, the weather changing between sunny late-summer with incredibly intense light and strong rain (that brought my Plein Air session to an end after an hour). I took photos also due to the changing weather conditions ( Read more... )

First abstract landscape at all and first landscape in pastel. It worked surprisingly well. The sky's colours are a little more subtle in the original, softer. But velour paper is a bitch to photograph, unfortunately, so this is the best I came up with. I'm going to try an LJ-cut and a bigger image behind cut next.


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