During our short vacation in Vaals (The Netherlands) we made a few signposted walks, enjoying the weather, the hills, the views and the woodland areas we were walking through. Several pictures were made of the nice landscape and I intend to use some of them as reference for watercolour paintings.
This is the first scene I painted and though the landscape was green under a blue sky, I adapted it to another colour scheme. Sometimes I just don't want to paint another blue and green landscape.
My limited palette has a yellow, two browns and a blue for making the grey-ish shades by mixing it with the brown ones.
This is one of those paintings that are started with a reference picture that is really good, but before all the trees or other elements are added, the painting already looks great, so I decide to stop.
I really don't think this painting would improve with foreground trees, it's all about atmosphere.
The information about the materials I have used, the size of this watercolour painting and its availability can all be found in my Tumblr blog. If you are interested in my original artworks, please contact me.
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