Kaboom Mountain

 

Kaboom Mountains

4x6" oil on canvas panel

Another one for the "failure" pile. I was a bit sick that day and only managed to paint for an hour, but still wanted to finish this painting. So I rushed it and it wasn't a great idea.

Let's see what we can learn...

- The colors are nice, but the saturated blues and saturated reds are fighting for attention.

- The clouds are nice and painterly, but nothing about them says "clouds". Most of all they lack a sense of scale. Some larger brushstrokes up top and smaller strokes towards the horizon would've really helped.

The clouds and mountains make up some really confusing shapes (can you even tell what's a cloud and what's a mountain?). The values are too close.