Ogden Valley Meadow

This is the second plein air (outdoor) painting I did in the workshop with Shanna Kunz earlier this year. This was in the same area as "Spring Foliage" just down the street from the entrance to the Jefferson-Hunt campground in the Ogden Valley near Huntsville, Utah. What appealed to me about this scene is the large flat plane of the meadow contrasting with the more vertical plane of the big tree in the background, well that and the fact it was mostly green and I like green. It was unusually hot for a late June day, my umbrella not only kept my acrylic paint in the shade and workable it kept me from melting.