Landscape Color Studies, part 1

I was impressed by Nathan Fowkes' post where he did a sheet of 16 color studies from Edgar Payne paintings. As I am new to painting and color mixing, this seemed like a perfect exercise for me.

I ended up using 2 Frederic Church paintings (top) and 2 John Kensett paintings (bottom).

I will be doing this kind of thing again.

Acrylic on paper

Ceratosaurus skull

Ceratosaurus skull

at Dinosaur Discovery Museum, Kenosha WI

I started this one sometime around Nov. or Dec. 2010 and finally got back to it a week or so ago.

Colored pencil (Caran d'Ache Chestnut) & graphite pencil (for lay-in) on Borden & Riley #234 paper