This fall we had mild weather and amazing color on our deciduous trees which hung on the branches longer than usual. I think the dry conditions was the reason we had an extended, yet glorious season.
I simply did not have time to paint outside as much as I would like So I resorted to photographing the fall colors and fading light which lit up the landscape to amazing effect.
This color saturation forced me to broaden my color palette in ways I usually don't. I used 'brilliant orange', a Holbein watercolor pigment, to try to match the orange-red of the distant hills and it still didn't match the intensity of color I saw out in the landscape.
This fall scene does remind me of some of Winslow Homer's watercolors of the Adirondack Mountains occupied by hunters and fisherman.
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