New: “Greenscape”

I was recently asked how I plan the palette for a particular piece. The short answer is…I don’t. At least in the sense of thinking about the palette in its entirety. Longer answer is that it’s more of a plan-on-the-fly approach, where one color choice leads to another, and then to another. Thinking about what color works well against another, is the overall palette warm or cool, or (as is most often the case) both. In this piece, and the pastel study done ahead of it, green was the goal. The sky was the starting point, and everything else color-wise just came along after that. “Greenscape” 40 x 30 o/c