Lesson Three

When we traveled to Alaska we took many pictures of beautiful mushrooms that were growing in the campground at Anchorage. These four mushrooms were growing together as I have painted them. I used thumbnail sketches to put them in different compositions and decided they looked great positioned to the right of the picture. I painted the background mottled to suggest leaves and greenery, but wanted the mushrooms, in their glorious color, to be first and foremost.