new color and bits of sketchbook wisdom

Still working with stretching the idea of possible color combinations. Normally I would not choose browns or yellow, so I intentionally those  two sticks of pastel to be dominant.
Bits of wisdom I found in my sketchbook:
1. Think about what it is that attracted you and stick with it. Find it in what you see.
2. Always lean towards the temperature you have chosen, don't jump around.

dominant color, temperature and pastel pencils?

6x9 pastel on somerset
This is another pastel that when it left the location was not working. Back in the studio with no interference from "the scene" it was easy to see its speckled nature. The first thing I did was unify it with the color of the light. Keeping in mind what would be cool and what would be warm I simply listened to the painting. Long ago someone gave me some pastel pencils, something I have never used. I took them out for this and found them to be helpful. I used them as I would a brush moving and joining colors.

Sorry, I forgot to take a photo of the pastel before I began work in the studio, but instead, here are the fluffernuttins.

dominant color, temperature and value...what's yours?

6x7 pastel on somerset
When I took this one back from the field it didn't work at all. It was missing  dominant color.   The painting was also missing a dominant temperature, but it did have a dominant value.
The fact that the pastel was a total failure made it easier to attack ruthlessly. I changed the  temperature to be more cool than warm. Lime green, lemon yellow, light blue. It's glazed almost completely with a lemon green. I chose lemon green because I don't like that color. The challenge was- I had to make it work. Perverse, eh?  Of course a landscape is predominantly warm so I added punch of warm burnt sienna with an underbelly of violet. That is on the opposite side of the color wheel and an almost complement. I also without thinking about it chose the best landscape combination- a triad of secondaries- green, orange and violet.

Important ideas to remember:
A painting needs a  dominant : value, color and temperature. Take one of your failures and have a little fun.