Wine Country

Painting photos from Napa always makes me feel calm and peaceful, I guess because there is just nothing stressful happening when I'm there.  I painted this using a very limited palette as an experiment, and I think it resulted in a very harmonious color scheme.  I used: Cobalt Blue, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, and Cadmium Red.  This is the last painting I completed with my old palette which included some of the semi-opaque and opaque colors I've since eliminated.  If I did this with my current palette, I would have used Cobalt, Quinacridone Gold, Winsor Red, and Burnt Sienna.  Later this week I will post a few paintings from my new palette.