Sorry for my absence--I've been taking a summer Outdoor Studio class that takes students around Wyoming to experiment with landscape, culminating in a three-day camping trip to the Tetons. Here are a few of the better pieces I did.
oil pastel
oil pastel
in progress: oil over acrylic sketch
acrylic sketches
OK, now will you teach me the secrets of planning a landscape? Laying out something like the 3rd one there (the oil pastel greenery) in pencil ...heck, even in digital color...just mystifies me.
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Aunt Fee!! Usually I kinda just jump into a composition based on some interesting focal point I like (the 3rd one was cool to me because of the rock). Not always a good approach. If I want to think about it a little more, I get my camera out and take some sample pics to find an interesting composition. That's handy when the landscape is really busy (like the Vedauwoo one) or has a confusing layout where it's hard to make heads or tails of things. :) My teacher said: "if rendering (landscape), look for strong horizontals and verticals" to ground your drawing on.
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