Wildacres Morning
20×16″
Oil on canvas
©2013 Lucinda Howe

In a recent workshop with Caroline Jasper, the exercise was to create depth in the painting.  I allowed the foreground to come forward by using the strongest value contrasts and leaving larger patches of the red underpainting.  The middle ground layers have cooler colors and less value contrast, and the distant mountains  are light and cool to fade into the sky.

The exerci