Rattlesnake Canyon

Some more playing with water yesterday.  Thoughts of color... need to increase still.  The shadows of underwater rocks in the previous one really helped give it depth.  This pool is a bit less interesting without that.

I do quite like how the deep greenery of the canyon has turned out.

Also acrylic on canvas panel, but this one is 8"x10".

The mighty White River

I have been working a few days over months on what I'll probably call "The Source" as it is start of one great fork of the White River, but I seemed to just look upon the space for the water and not quite want to fill it in.  I finally did, but did not much like the result.  I grabbed a small panel to try out a piece of the water.  The first... became a bit of mud.

So I stepped back and thought about it a little longer and tried again.

It certainly makes me a bit happier.  The colors together seem odd, though.  They are accurate enough, but not exactly believable.  I really do need to think a lot more about color.

(These are acrylic on 7"x5" canvas panel from 12 March 2017.)