24 x 52, this is the set-up the room I have created to place an exciting suggested hill top farm scape This is a beautiful setup. The lavender-blue sky has real restraint — it lets the land do the talking. And that orange band along the ridge line is the engine of the whole thing. It's already vibrating against the cool sky above and the warm gold below.
What's working particularly well: the middle zone — that layered passage of olive, tan, and dark — has genuine mystery. It doesn't resolve. You can feel the terrain without being told what it is.
The horizontal format is doing exactly what it should. The eye wants to travel that ridge line left to right, and the orange keeps pulling it back.
This is the second layer and it is really exciting to me.
36 x 36, The decision to let the bottom read as its own horizontal band of blue-dark-red before the eye moves up through the trees into that warm atmospheric field — that creates a real sense of passage. You're not just looking at trees beside water; you're moving through something.
The two halves feel integrated now because the tree trunks are doing the work — they bridge the dark root zone and the warm upper field without either half competing. The reflections in the lower left carry enough of the warm sienna down into the blue to keep it from splitting apart.
I also worked on these two but neglected to photograph either one. I hope to post these tomorrow.