Bruce Vento Morning

You may look at this and think "I've seen this before," and yes, you have. This is the studio painting from the sketch in a previous post. It was fun to improvise and make up the prairie grasses effect.

I am sad that winter melted in the course of a couple of weeks. Thin strips of residual snowbank are a nice constrasting touch to the quiet landscape grayness before spring pops into citrusy yellow fringes around the treetops. The next few months will be challenging for me with the mixing of hundreds of green hues (and usually none of them are correct), but this year is my year to conquer greens!