Really enjoyed Oliver's Inspiration Challenge Youtube post so I thought I would join this amazing forum . I started landscape watercolour a couple of months ago and I am really inspired by any landscape I am in. This is a painting I did today after a walk in the hills near me early this morning. The Berkshire Downs sit above the Thames Valley. They are mainly arable fields with some chalk downland and a mixture of oak and beech woodland. The bird life is always amazing with red kites, linnets, lapwings, meadow pipits. And at this time of year fieldfares and redwings.
The photo I took this morning with mist in the background. The trees are young English oak (Quercus robur)
Arches 23 x31 cm 140 lb Rough. Payne's Grey & Indigo
Any positive feedback welcome. In desparate need of some rigger brushes for the foreground winter wheat....
Your limited palette has worked so well, I can feel how crisp that air would be.
You have really caught the atmosphere.
Very atmospheric. I think the foreground is good as it is, i wouldn't over do it with a rigger. less work in the trees with all the branches would have been better as well, just add a couple, its always better to understate things in watercolour - let the viewers imagination do the rest.