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lately i've been drawing at the end of the day, because there's stuff to do in the morning & i like to sit outside and read in the afternoon. however, because my room faces west, the evening light streams in when i sit down to draw. and that does not help with colour. today was sunnier than the last couple of days were & i had to stop drawing because i couldn't see the colours anymore, i had no idea what i was doing. & that was while doing the second landscape.

when the light got really bad i just stopped. i might work on it some more, tomorrow, but i'm not sure. maybe i'll just abandon it.

 

i already did feel like i messed up the second one before the light turned orange, but i usually find a way to make the awfulness a little less awful -- i think it's partly to do with the sky; it's too cold & doesn't seem to correspond with the land. i know skies never are green but i'm not a realistic painter, drawperson, human being anyway. maybe i should do something with that. a greenish or maybe brownish sky. 

(i'm pretty sure there's a bit of green in the sky of the first landscape. accidentally there, but maybe that is why that sky is ok. the sky in the second one is also quite terribly because it's overworked.)

there's a bit in the second landscape that i do like: that soft smushy bit just below that dark tree-line.

i got my new oil pastels! i forgot to order some colours; i always do. i wanted some umbers & a dark grey but apparently i forgot to order them... i will post a photo with the colours soon. i used some for these landscapes; a buff titanium, some warmer greens & few greys. a light grey that is not at all light. and a colour called mummy that is basically mars violet by derwent drawing. not my colour. i thought it'd be browner but it's not.