I made a few adjustments to the painting, mainly reducing the value on the illuminated areas of the foreground, adding highlights to the larger bushes and trees, and reducing contrast in the background mountains.
View from Pinnacle Peak
Painting is now 95% complete:
These were the previous two stages, continuing from where I left off on the last post.
The shadows and silhouette of the bushes are added. Also, the sky's color is shifted to a warmer pink and the tone was adjusted higher.
Then the the highlights on the bushes are painted, along with the silhouette of the saguaros.
Boulders by Pinnacle Peak (in progress)
This weekend I started work on this painting. I was standing on the north side of Pinnacle Peak facing north when I took the reference photo of this scenery. The support is an 18 x 24 stretched linen canvas.
This is the outline drawn over the canvas, which is toned with a desaturated raw sienna.
After the outline was drawn, I painted the main shadow areas.
After painting the shadows, I painted the sky. The color/tone will be adjusted later with scumbling.