Yakima Canyon #1

I wanted to start with a painting that would have colors I’m used to dealing with since I wasn’t used to acrylic paint so I chose one from the Yakima Canyon.  This was from a trip last week when I went over to fish the canyon water and to find some bighorn sheep.

The dry time on the acrylic is both good and bad.  It was easier to do washes to build up the colors in the hills instead of mixing wet into wet as with oils but there were quite a few times that I went for a color and it was already hard on the palette.   Detail on these small canvases is definitely easier with acrylic than oils since it isn’t as prone to just blending in with whatever is there already.   I feel pretty good knocking this out in two hours and think I’ve got a good start to the month though I’ll probably still tweak this a bit over the coming days.