3:50 PM: just before cleaning up to leave for the house, i made some further changes to sparse reflections. most immediately noticeable are: the blue surrounding the mountain, the addition of more buff white and the renewed black marks defining the rocks at the bottom.
BELOW: left is the earlier version and on the right, how it looked 10 minutes ago
at work on sparse reflections about 1pm
2:17 pm: the work i did recently on illusory city and il torrente made sparse reflections seem harsh. so i went over it with white oil pastel, then scraped, then went in with grey oil pastel around the contours of some of the mountains.
at first glance, it seems easier for my eye to take in this long, narrow composition without getting stuck on the details. the buff white i put in the sky portion of the painting covers the white with dashes of blue sky that was there previously. this helps unify the composition. you can compare the two by clicking back & forth on the two images below. i may do more to accentuate the rocks below. in the earlier version they help anchor the image, and have gotten a little lost now.
