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Original Creation

Desert Beauty

ForestVueGallery 30 May 2022

This was somewhat inspired by a Yarnell tutorial. I was interested in achieving distance and a storm brewing sky. I’m pleased with the light colors as it stands out more on a dimly lit wall. 18x24

Acrylics

Comments

LadyGalaga Shadowlink11

This is gorgeous!

Oh wow. This is really good! I don’t think I’m familiar with that one. Will have to look that one up. Very nicely done.

Fantastic painting love the overall feel although I have never seen a cactus scene.. really well done .. Happy painting

Mgiese84 Cleanest Technique In The Game

Very nicely done

The depth caught my attention. Nice work!!!

You definitely achieved great depth, and I really like the colours and values for the middle distanced hills and foreground rocks.

Beautiful!

Gorgeous!

I’m jealous if your cactus work! The last time I painted them it came out looking a bit wonky. I do really like the lightness - almost gives it a watercolor feel to the painting.

Thank you all for the kind comments. Tom, I can say the best decision I made was signing up for the Jerry Yarnell tutorials. He paints in acrylic so that was new to me, but I’ve learned a lot about color mixing and creating depth, layering, etc.
Lilikins, most cactus I’ve seen are kind of gnarly looking so I figured these are a bit too nicely shaped 🌵!
Happy summer and painting to all!

Such a wonderful scene FVG! the distance is amazing, colors works so beautiful together!

Sunnylady, thank you so much!

flippergirlpaints Top Event Submitter

Nice! Love the softer colors, and you definitely achieved distance.

Thank you Flippergirl!

Pietro1963 Master of Monsters

Great image.love the desert

Great work!

Thank you Dirk.

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