Rising together to the sky by Cristina Dalla Valentina in Verona, Italy.
I’ve featured Valentina’s wonderful work before. You may remember Urban Landscape 4. It has become one of the top 10 paintings on the gallery.
Valentina is extremely good at capturing light. In this piece the light is cascading through the timbers and having an affect on everything. I think what I appreciate most about artists that can capture light like this is their use of blue.
I would have reached for a grey or darker brown to make shadows in the trees. Valentina reached for a blue color. Then a greenish brown. Then a red brown. And finally the left-most edge was darkened by a near black.
We can all learn a lot from Valentina. I know I have.