Horsing Around

I created this painting for a class demonstration. I wanted to show the technique for painting fog in a landscape. It can be challenging to paint the atmosphere on a foggy morning. The fog tends to separate the different layers of trees and vegetation with obvious changes in value to represent the different shapes. There's not as many bright colors on a foggy day so the painting is more harmonious. Some of the white flowers in the foreground are created by sprinkling salt onto the paper while the paints are still wet.