The plan this afternoon was to do an hour of painting and then go cycling, knowing all the time that if I start painting I wouldn’t be able to stop. So it turned out. What attracted me to this scene is the lower third, there are three distinct bands of trees. In the foreground the tops have caught the sun and so its a pattern of oranges and bright greens. The mid band all the trees are dark olive and the top band the trees are a mid blue/green. There are heavy clouds and no direct sunlight so everything is in a mid tone, but I think I want to create a bit more contrast in the sky.
View, Northumberland. Day 1