
The colors look warmer in real life than they do in the photo.
It was more work than I thought it would be. I put about 3 more layers of color on top of my underpainting and completely filled up the tooth of that sanded pastel paper. All together I think I went over the paper 6 times, first to sketch it in charcoal, then the underpainting in complimentary colors, then blend that first layer of pastel down into the paper with my Kneeded eraser. Those layers didn’t make my hand tired but then when I went over it with the last layers I had to press down hard on the pastel because the paper won’t hold any more color.

You can see a lot of the underpainting colors show through.
I don’t know what’s going on with those stick bushes. I’ll call it a design element. It’s not like that in real life but this is abstract, so, whatever. hahaha
I might go back to the beach next and try to paint waves with oils more realistically.

cedar tree and bare tree with water and background sedge behind them and sedge in front,
reflections of background trees and sky in the flooded path,
more sedge with green leaves on a stick bush in the foreground.

Foreground tree on top of cedar with reflections in the creek and background sedge and background trees.

Background tree and sky with top of cedar tree on the bottom right.
I scribbled. It was fun.
I might try this color experiment again in the future with paint instead of pastel and different subject matter.