New Forest Heather 3: Path (7x7)

This is painted from a photograph taken last Wednesday on the same trip that supplied me with the source image for "New Forest Heather 1: From the stream bed".

The original image is decidedly more rectangular, but I seem to have run out of suitably sized canvases with the right proportions for the big portrait version in oils that I was planning. This is a sketch to see if the image works as a square.

You may have noticed that "New Forest Heather 2" is missing from the blog. Well, it exists; I made two versions of this image yesterday evening. You'll find it on DeviantART...

And here.

This version is truer to the photograph. It shows the steepness of the hill better, I think. But I omitted the figure in card version. He was there in my photograph; it's my 8 year old son.

Here they both are in various states of paint:

New Forest Heather 3: Path - acrylic on canvas, 7 x 7 cm
(painted with that 3/8" brush I used on Lego 46, with the last details on the figure done with a rigger)

New Forest Heather 2: Path - acrylic on Artist Trading Card, 2.5 x 3.5"

(painted entirely with the 3/8" brush)