A great mountain burning under the sun in a blazing sky, with tea growing on its lower reaches, and brown dust covering the footlands. This is not so much a scene, because I wanted to try something more abstract. I've been doing people and fantastical scenes a little bit too often, and I felt I needed something else.
There are a lot of things that were new about this painting; first, it's on linen-pressed acrylics paper that I've never used before - works beautifully. Second, it's much larger than my normal formats, at 48x36 cm. Third, I used collage and structure effects for it. The sky is done in impasto, with the ridges color orange. The brown dust is cinnamon applied through a paper cutout. The mountain base has actual tea on it - that didn't work quite as well, but so what. I don't have a good reason why the land is blue, except that I thought it looked good.
It's just a photograph, because I have driver issues with my scanner.
Comments
Minstrel Ayreon Says:
Interesting that I've gotten to where I recognize your style just from the preview before I even see your name!
I have to admit I mistook the land for sea, but overall I'd say you accomplished what you were aiming for.
Riot13O Says:
Niiiice experiment.
I like the sort of blocky shapes of everything. The use of textures are really interesting too, especially at the foot of the mountain and especially especially on the sky. That is 
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I would agree, though, with Minstrel Ayreon and say that I also mistook the land for ocean, especially since the wavy lines could be mistaken for waves. Aside from that, very nice job, and great experiment to work with. :) Can't say I've ever tried that kind of paper. And I think the tea worked pretty well at the foot of the mountain--it gives the painting more texture, and if the sky had been the only part to have some texture it would have looked off.
druidstwilight Says:
I also like the texture of the sky, also the shape of the mountain is strong, particularly at the top.
The star and the mountain are competing for dominance in the painting, if you have two subjects, try to make one smaller/ less saturated than the other. Also, try blending things more, it's good to have sharp transitions between objects, but it has a tendency to make delineations within an object read as different objects. With things like tea you can do that having it go from being a lot in one area to gradually becoming less in another area. With paint try taking a separate brush and blending the two colors together. Be careful of gradients though, they can be very easily abused.