Following on from last week, I've given another go at one of my original paintings. Here I have tried to reproduce a most wonderful tree located alongside the River Aln in the Alnwick Castle grounds. This whole area is a source of immense inspiration as the grounds were redesigned by Capability Brown in the mid-late 18th century, who was commissioned by the 1st Duke of Northumberland.

In any case, this old grand tree is located just up from the river bank itself and a fairly short walk from Denwick Bridge, if you are interested. Following extensive revision of @Olly Pyle's tutorials (tree's/colours - especially late summer greens) I decided to give this a go...

Here are my attempts... Still feel some work to do on composition, colour etc. but it all feels like it's going in a direction (hopefully the right one!!). Will probably go back to a few tutorials next as I think I need to brush up on some skills - I especially found the distant trees part difficult. Olly did cover this on one of his tree videos but I think I will revisit.

Happy painting one and all!