Dona Anas

9 x 12 Water Soluble Oils. My husband took this photo when he was out on his ATV. This mountain range is right by our house here in Las Cruces, N.M. (surrounded, along with the Organ and the Robledo Mountains)

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Comment by Candi Hogan on September 24, 2016 at 3:12: Thanks Adrienne, it was. My husband likes to get out early before it gets too hot here in N.M. He is out there somewhere again today, maybe he'll capture something else I can try painting!

Comment by Adrienne DeSaulniers on September 24, 2016 at 1:50: very pretty! looks like early morning light.

Comment by Candi Hogan on September 23, 2016 at 0:53: Hi Michael, I tried it! I see cutting off the right side, but wasn't too sure about cutting off 2/3rd's of the sky (especially since foregrounds are a struggle for me)..I really need to work on composition skills. I'm hoping that it's normal to get much worse before you get much better.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on September 22, 2016 at 8:58: Oh Candi, one more thing. You are a very dedicated and talented artist ... and that is why I am going to harass you one more time here: Try to keep in your thoughts when planning a painting .. Is this going to be about everything on the ground, or what is happening in the sky ... not both. Take a piece of cardboard and cover the sky about 2/3 down ..measuring from the left .... do you see or feel the difference in mood?? Now take another piece of cardboard and cover the right side of your painting .. oh, maybe just to the end of that first distant cliff ....do you see what just happened??? .. the light on that cliff now becomes the star of the show .. and we have a great movement of the glance that takes us there!!! Let me know what you think about that. :))

Comment by Michael J. Severin on September 22, 2016 at 8:41: Sounds exciting .. looking forward to that. Well, if you studied with Phil, then you probably already heard a million times what I was saying about painting the color of the light! ... :)

Comment by Candi Hogan on September 22, 2016 at 5:26: Thanks Michael! I've just started studying with Julie Oliver Ford, who lives here in Las Cruces. She is starting me off on color, and I'm really excited about it! (everything I do is blue!) Four of her paintings are in a new book on color that just came out. I can't remember the title, but ordered it through her, so when I get it will let you know what it is Studied with Phil for 2 months, but when this opened up, couldn't pass it up as right here. Hoping to do one of Phil's workshops in Tubac, AZ.though.

Comment by Michael J. Severin on September 22, 2016 at 5:04: Very, very well done Candi!! I love the shadows coming across the road and the bit of sunlight hitting those rugged cliffs. A little tip to you and all the students on this site .. (I guess we are all students?) To paint the illusion of sunlight, use warm colors, not cool colors. .. in other words, use the color of the sunlight, which we know from living on this planet, is not blue.. Also, try to avoid using too much white paint when raising the value of sunlit green .. white paint cools .. when tinting with white (which we need to do), we must induce the warmth back into the tinted color.

Comment by Candi Hogan on September 22, 2016 at 2:54: Thanks Charles, just got a few great shots this morning when walking my dog, The lighht was so great had to run home and get my camera.

Comment by Charles Post on September 22, 2016 at 2:50: Excellent rendering of the field of sage and the mountain range. We have come to love the NM vistas and desert colors.