Continuing with Weigh Scales

Some time ago, Julie had put up some backdrop on the east end of Weigh Scales. If you look back a couple of years you will see her in action, painting the wall. This is where she stopped.

I have been looking at the beautiful trees she drew and something did not see quite right. Now that I am putting up distant ridges, I could see that we had made the trees too tall and we had no distant perspective.

So, now I have to continue the trees that I drew further to the west and then blend them into what she did - quite a challenge as I am no artist.

So, the first thing was to put up the basics of the distant ridge line. It is to reappear as the lower hill drops down.

I brought the ridge line around and covered the upper quarter of her trees with my ridge. Things looked better already.

I carried the ridge down to the rising hill in the Shamokin Narrows. It disappears again.

It tapers off behind the near trees.

Now I have to go along and put the suggestions of individual trees onto that background color.

I am working along and put an open field at the joint of the lower colors to distract you a little.

Coming down to the home stretch on the ridge.

Finished the ridge - about 2.5 hours - and put on the base color of green for the near trees. Problem number one is that my base is more olivey than Julie's colors. Hers are a crisper green.

Her trees are a brighter green than mine are.

Well, we have to make it work so I tried to get more green into the lower tree impressions than I had used in the earlier sections of this color. I began this at the joint in the wall where I will have some tall buildings so it will not be so noticeable. That is just behind my head.