Barbara Nuss

"Heading South," (Lucas Cross Farm), p. 2

First I painted the whites, so I could make some value judgements.  It's a good idea to paint your lightest lights early on. 

Then I looked at dozens of my photos of cloudy skies, and finally decided to do it this way. Most of my photos showed horizontal streaks of gray, but I found that if I varied the streaks, it was more interesting. Remember I'm going to add a flock of geese. I worked on the middle ground trees,  the cornfield, the grass, and a bit on the road.  

I need to finish the foreground, especially the big tree on the left, before I can go back and refine the rest.