New Stuart Range Painting

It's unusual for me to work on two landscape paintings at the same time. But I started this based on my field painting last month since I got a potential buyer.
I made the canvas more horizontal (18"x28") than 3:4 that I did on site. Also put a little more sky into the composition to balance with dried up hay field (I think) in the foreground.
I would have to add more accents than the real landscape to make this piece interesting.

Pursuing More Edges

Suddenly it's becoming clearer what I've been pursuing my whole painter career was defining edges. Not values nor color. I'll look at my process again from this aspect and try re-establishing it. Just like the last "Mt. Logan", this painting has a lot of sharp edges due to the subject matter. 

Defining Mountain Edges

Came back to this piece and started defining edges of the mountains. I'm not sure about the values at this moment and need to wait until fill out the bottom half, just like Mt. Logan. But they wouldn't be darker than the current values.

Stuart Range from S Cle Elum

Last evening I came over the pass and stayed at Cle Elum then painted Stuart Range viewed from South of S. Cle Elum. Sky, the mountains and the forest hill are almost what I intended. The forground pastures and low trees probably needed more attentions and practices before I can make a master plein air piece. But, overall, I'm quite satisfied.

Last update for this horse

I'm finishing up this piece. Roughly and randamly filled the background. then put more needles on the pine tree. I could have made it much darker as in the reference photo. But decided not to push it further because it's out of focus and I don't want it getting more attentions by viewers.
I'll make the horse's lighted side a little lighter and try enhancing colors on the face before putting my brush down.

Filling more background

while still refining the face of the horse, I started filling more background. Then realized I needed to add more value contrast on the horse sice it's muck closer and focused. At this moment it looks very flat.
I'll try finish this this month.

Glacier Peak Wilderness Hiking

Today I hiked up toward Round Lake from North Fork Sauk River just off of Mt. Loop Hwy near Darrington. I woke up late and made a mistake to cook breadfast at home before taking off. So when I started assending it was already past 11. Besides my legs still had fatigue from jogging yesterday. So I had lunch well below Bigley Gap (elev. 4,400ft) causing that I couldn't reach the gap of Lost Creek Ridge to look down Round Lake before 2:30 when I decided to turn around and start decending.
However, I didn't miss shooting photos of Sloan Peak(above image) and other mountains on the way up. I promised to myself I'd come back again and at least see the lake. It might be next year though.