I decided to work on the original sketch as a limited palette piece as the subject naturally seemed to have three colour types: blue for the sky, green for the trees and grass, brown for the man-made structures. I liked the intersections and angles of the objects and the slant of the ground. The tone of the piece doesn’t work as well as it should – I needed to have worked on subtle gradients of tone more – especially on the roofs of the houses. The angles (perspective) of the roofs aren’t quite right. I quite like the pencil marks that suggest the slope in the foreground and the scribbles to create the bushes. The use of just three colours does make the composition more striking.
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