moving water and student show

Moving water is always a huge challenge. It's always changing and it has reflections from the land and bouncy mirror-like parts on the white water. To me it helps to divide it into warm and cool: what is in shadow and what is in sun?
The rocks are a perfect resting point from the greens. The oranges and violets make it sing better.

BTW Three of my most talented young students had their first show at my studio yesterday. They have been working for 3 years and their dedication is obvious in their work quality. For this show they not only created the work but they learned how to frame it and wrote their first artist's statement.

green and the use of grays

12x12 oil on wood

Needless to say I kept at it with this one. While I liked it in its GREEN state, it was not one I could live with...too electric. It needed soft grays. I am not sure you can tell, but now the sun actually vibrates and I like it more. It has some depth, without it being about space.
The neutrals work as the joiners, the colors that make the other colors come alive.  This painting, one of many  about underpainting and making a glow through simultaneous contrast. You will see more.