Herron Class 3: Showing Brushstrokes

This class was about painting a landscape and showing your brushstorkes. First I did Blue Calm Water, 10x14in.

For my second work, I did Fall Road with Down-Sloping Hill, 24x18in, on a full sheet of paper (using a full sheet is supposed to be harder than doing small works). Unlike the in-class demo, I chose to overlap light leaves onto dark ones, have some branches going more horizontal than vertical, have smaller but more frequent patches of sky showing, have some trunks only semi-broken by leaves, and have some lighter trunks to indicate distance.

Both are (c) 2010 by Jess Sanaie.