First Glacier NP Painting

I started sketching the first painting out of my recent vacation at Glacier NP, MT. As I updated, I painted this scene on site. The composition is very simple; the lake, a part of the front mountain and the pyramid shaped mountain, then blue sky in the morning. I still get goose bumps every time I watch at the reference photos I took.
Looks like the back mountain needs to be a little bigger but otherwise, this is pretty much the bigger shapes.

Getting face shape

Trying to get the face shape correct, which is the sole focal point of this painting. I know the values on the horse have to be much darker. But I'll keep pushing values gradually while getting the shapes correct.

New Horse Painting

Just started this painting this week. It's small, 13x15. I shot the photo on my way back from the spot I painted Snake River in January during my Dayton vacation. I just couldn't forget about the face of the horse lit by the last sun light in a cold afternoon. It as if wanted to tell me something without a word. Hope I can paint its expression on the canvas.

Glacier NP painting

I just came back from my Glacier NP vacation. Due to weather, I missed the first day of panting and this is the only painting I did there while I was busy hiking when weather permit.
This was at Two Medicine yesterday. I didn't even know the name but the Pyramid shaped mountain's color contrasted with the front forest (I couldn't get the forest color right). That's why I picked this composition. It was cut in short (1.5h) due to the boat tour ticket I got for 1PM departure.  So I couldn't get the shadow values right on the front mountain (Mount Sinopah). I'll probably paint this in larger format later. I really liked the composition.

Probably the final update of Fisher Peak, finally...

I'm currently trying to show the sun-lit part on the front left slope but struggling. I also want to light up the front right slope partially. The colors on the rocky trail in the foreground aren't still right. Then I need to knock down the darker values of the clouds, but am afraid I might have to paint all clouds again depending on the color mix I'll come up with. Then I'll finally call it done.

Finalizing values on mountains

Almost finalizing the values on the mountains. I want to push more on right and left edges but probably I should define the values on the foreground first. The key is not to get too much attention to the foreground because the focal point is the mountains in the back.

Jane Hunt Workshop

This weekend I was attending Jane Hunt's Plein Air WS on Bainbridge Island, as always hosted by Martha Jordan.
On Day1(Sat) we went out to Pritchard Park on the same spot we did with Tim Deibler a couple of years ago. I tried to paint the same tree I think Tim painted and I painted last time, but I couldn't figure out how to handle thick layered trunks and branches then leaves. Tried Jane's technique, using a plastic painting knife for lighted up leaves but didn't work well for stones underneath, then timed out.
Day2 was at flower garden for color study with limited palette. From the beginning the ground for sun-lit and shadowed areas are cooler than they're supposed to be. And, of course, I can't figure out how to paint flowers and leaves well. That's why I gave up flowers as subject for long time ago. Anyway, I managed to get this this level (above right photo).

Jane is quite keen about values. She doesn't use much high chroma colors but the result comes up natural because of that. I don't think I would start using knives but I'll study more about value range 1 to 4 more.