Refined the valley and the right side

Green shapes, values and colors in the vally area. Also put the close-to-final colors on the ridge on the right side. Before working on the left ridge, I wanted to put more colors and values in the fron right. Now I'm ready to make the purple on the left fade away, which is ruining the entire painting's color contrast.

Also, while I was hiking around yesterday I decided finishing this piece in this month.

One month after, still working on the background mountains...

It's been a month since the last update. Still kept working on the background mountain. I got frustrated since I couldn't show the difference between shadowed areas by the clouds and the other areas.

I'll leave them and move on to mid-ground where the difference should be much clearer. I'll give it a shot there next.

Went back to sky

While working on the trees and brush in the foreground, I felt I needed to decide the values of the other part more clearly. Then some edges of forest lines need to be curved out with light greens with the right values.

So I went back to the sky again and put desired values on the clouds. Darker part is a little too much purplish, which I eventually knock down with more grayish tone but the values are getting close to the final.

Now I need to define the values on the mountains by separating sun lit part from shadow & cloud-cast shadow part.

New Horse Painting

I actually started this new horse painting a couple of weeks ago. Only drawing though. It's an odd size; 15x17. For this, I felt that 14x16, which I picked for the last  cow painting "#355", would be a little too small then the next step like 16x20 would be too big. So I settled in this size. The overall composition has been roughly done by now. I now can dig into more to the horse body.

Mid section is filled

Middle ground is finally filled. I still want to adjust shapes of the clusters of trees, then will define shapes in foreground.

Filling out mid range

Before the layers I put on over the last weekend dry up, I adjusted some shapes and values in the mid range valley. Since I'm still not confidence with the shapes in the area, I can't commit with values and colors. I'll work more in the same area.

Tried a different approach

Although I nomally wouldn't get into the details at this early stage of a painting,  I decided to take a different approach since I haven't touched this for almost a month.
First, I took an approach learned at Andy Eccleshall's work shop; work from the furthest toward the near end. Second, I already started working on the details of the background mountains in wet-in-wet approach. But still relatively thinner layers. I'm sure I have to put more layers on the mountains and sky later. But at that time it would be drier so easier to put a layer on top.