Oil on canvas. 48'' x 56''

Began by brushing a white mix along the horizon, with a little gray and violet, plus a little of my own sky-blue mix. Then graded the white mixture with more gray-violets and then more with deeper blues. There was alot of linseed oil to make the paint goopy enough to blend. Reminds me of colorful yogurt. The sky and space colors where done over three times, with lots of blending... my arm and hands were really hurting. Then before the paint fully dried i brushed in the moon. Using the same white mixture, i added some more gray violet, unlike the first addition, and put in the far distant mountains. I had separate piles of paint for the forest ground receding into the distance. Then i used alot of paint thinner and blotched in green for the fore ground to cover up all the white of the canvas. I used the same size brush for all the colorful trees, all the little color spots on the closer mountain range and the trees down in front.

detail of red trees: [link]

detail of yellow trees: [link]

detail on little lake: [link]

detail on moon: [link]

me pic size comparison: [link]

me working: [link]