8.) I now paint the left bank of the river (and the far away right bank) - I typically work from left to right because, as a right-handed naturally un-coordinated individual, I would be smearing paint all over if I did otherwise.
7.) I'm constantly thinking in terms of two values, so now I paint my lighter value of the trees. Once again, I mix sky color into the trees I want to recede an mix a more saturated color for the closer trees that are being hit most directly with sunlight.
9.) It's now time to paint the river. I begin with the furthest section away (just because it nearest the top of my canvas) and work forward for the same reason stated in the last step. 10.) I block in all the major color areas of the water. I wanted to see more of the river bottom than is showing in my original reference, so I looked at another reference photo I took near the same area.
12.) Finally, I paint in the right bank and the foreground vegetation and call it done! Click the link below to see a large photo of the finished painting
11.) I'm nearly done now. I've painted in all the rocks on the river bottom by making sure not to go too dark in the shadow value nor too light in the highlights and I paid close attention to edge quality, keeping my strokes fluid and not too crisp.
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