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Turbulence Series: Aspens and Color Analysis

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 Turbulence Series: Aspens Introduction I intend to do several 8x10 paintings of this photo, taken up in the Aspens near the Santa Fe Ski Area in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (circa 2013). References: Aspen Turbulence #1. Prismatic Full Palette with Brush only Aspen Turbulence #1 (using full prism of colors with brush only) First attempt at painting the aspen scene using the full palette of colors and brush only. I considered this a failure so I wanted to analyze how I could improve it.  For this reason I created this post.  This painting had too much green in it so I wiped out the lower left green area. zit had a large tress (the ghost is still visible) so that the other problem with this painting was the 'goal-posting' considered a no-no. I also reaslized that I didn't need to use the full range of colors so for the later attempt I will use a limited palette. Note that some FB friends preferred this painting. Full palette: cadmium lemon, cad yellow medium, cad yellow de