And I'm lucky to live near such an inspiring landscape.

It sure was a lovely place to be for a few hours.
Best thing I've done in the last few years was take up painting again after a decades-long hiatus.

Very nicely done!

It was such a beautiful spot that I felt like I'd had a full week's vacation after spending a couple of hours painting there.

I appreciate the compliment.

You can almost hear the water.

That spot is so serene yet invigorating.

The linseed oil that they're mixed with is emulsified, as is the oil medium I use to thin them. No turpentine, no mineral spirits necessary, and I can clean my brushes with soap and water. I love them!

I'm just learning and never heard of them.
Oils take longer to dry than acrylics. Is that true of the water-mixable oils?

I love the painting. The little dabs of pink really add a lot.

I started the painting with an underpainting using red transparent oxide (a reddish brown), white and burnt umber to work out my composition and values (lights and darks). And then some of that red pokes through here and there.

It has such a serene quality to it!

I've been enjoying your artistic journey here and on Instagram.

I just love how you handled the water. And the softness yet clarity of the background is perfect. Is it an oil painting?

They dry slightly faster, but not much, and you just need soap and water to clean your brushes.

Thank you so much.

I've been entranced by Ian Roberts' (the guy who wrote the wonderful composition book) weekly (Tues) musings on YouTube on all sorts of aspects of painting -- he does a lot of landscape painting. They're 5-8 or 9 minutes, jam packed with ideas, so very easy to watch, and inspiring.

I do learn a lot from online videos.

Thank you for sharing your work with us.

I'm glad you like it.

What brand of water mixable oil paint do you use? I just bought a set of Cobra oil paints but haven't tried them yet.

Good luck with them! One tip: I don't use any water while I'm painting, just the oil medium made for these paints.

I like this painting a lot.

I love your username. I used to have a lionhead rabbit.

We're up early.

I just decided to get into oil painting and have four pumpkins/gourds in my shopping cart that are going to be my first victims/subjects.

I have a stressful job in the nonprofit sector and nothing, nothing clears my head like painting. I hope you find the same joy in it that I do.

If you'd like any advice, I'd offer that it's a big job to try to understand drawing, lights and darks and color all at once. If it gets to be too much, try painting in monochrome. I often start my paintings with an underpainting using only a reddish brown (I like transparent red oxide, but burnt sienna would work, too), burnt umber and white. That's how I started this one, and then I painted in color on top. You can see the reddish brown peeking out here and there.

Or, ignore my advice and just dive in! Pumpkins and gourds are great subjects.

Also--I just noticed your post count--welcome to Democratic Underground!

It gives the landscape an ephemeral moodiness. Soft light is amazing!

You're such a gift to the artists' group, always so supportive. I hope your own art is going well.

Thanks for your kind words!