I need to tone that barn down so I have been thinking about it and consulting my great little color mixing book, The Watercolor Painters Pocket Palette, by Moira Clinch.
I think that a glaze with yellow ochre will give it the temperature that I need. Then burnt umber glaze for the shadowy sections of the siding.
The palms are coming in nicely but the umbrella shaped tree (not sure what it is exactly...I will look it up in Google) is too one dimensional. I need some sky holes in it and more shadows. The branches need to go back away from the front plane of the tree too. everything is all on one plane.
The riding arena has a good start, and it looks just like it feels when you are out there: hot!
I noticed that subconsciously I have made the painting in two halves of bright light and subdued light. I will have to think about this development and decide if I need to change it or let it stay that way. I think since the painting is very horizontally banded, that my intuition took over and did that to balance it.
I will leave the cat really until last because otherwise it will distract me from the environment that shapes it/him/her.
I am also going to leave the fence along the long backside of the arena for last because I will put it in and then not disturb it.
So this is really how I work; lots and lots of thinking, some actual painting, more thinking,...
kind of boring, huh?
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