The Country Road

I decided today I'd try something without mountains or still water. I wanted practice on things I wasn't very good at such as trees, bushes, and long grass :)  I did my clouds with the 2 inch brush. I believe I got to much paint on the brush initially, cause they came out looking like cotton balls. But, they were decent. Initially I was going to try and put a stream in there, but decided against it later on in the process.

Here I layed in my background color. Still had my stream in mind at that point.

After laying out the highlights I attempted to put some dark paint on, to make the river bed, but ended up screwing up my stream edges. And due to the fact I layed out all my painting in one shot, just decided to scratch the stream plan and go with trying to make a road instead. The road ended up looking like crap, but with a little finessing it started to look less horrible.

Next I attempted a fence. The posts came out way to thick, and my highlighting and wire sucked on the first couple posts. But hey, I gave it a shot ;)



All in all a decent effort. It was fun, if nothing else.