(Oh my goodness this is late, please forgive me)
Plein Air
1) This plein air piece is captured by the Rio Grande, where a road crosses over the river towards the other side and is shown on the right side of the painting. The emotional tone is calm, walking beneath the changing trees as they sway gently in the breeze, highlighted by the autumn colors. It has a deep vanishing point in the middle of the panel with trees on the left side and a dark area under a bridge on the right.
2)I think it is balanced with the bright green and yellow colors on the left and then more blue/tan and darker colors on the left, while the middle ground is a mix between shadow and light. Perhaps with more light blue of the sky poking between the leaves of the trees.
3)There is a sort of volume in the piece with the pathway vanishing into the trees farther into the picture, the depth shows as well. Texture is where I fell away a little bit, although you can see the leaves in the trees as I did dot each one individually, however frantic the process was.
4)I have captured a specific time of day, the light stays the same for about four hours during this time and is around 12:00PM - 4:00PM. I didn't want to do it at sunset, run out of daylight, and then trip over a stump on the way back to my car.
5)I could improve this by making the details a lot more prominent, as the piece seems to merge into a mess of colors from close up, even though it looks alright from far away. I could also mix a few different shades of green and give a bit more shadow in the trees, since that is something I deemed unnecessary at the time that I was trying to get the thing done.
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