"Buffalo Skies"

40.5 x 52.5

Here is the almost finished piece.  It's been a labor of love as I really enjoyed painting this.  It's always a challenge to orchestrate so many elements/buffalo and make them all work.

The last two days have been spent blocking in a lot of the canvas without finishing anything completely.  I knew the large cloud shape in the background would hold a lot of weight and would change the weight the smaller distant buffalo would have so I had to get it in next. 

Then I started to fill in the foreground color.   The sky/cloud is actually a little darker in real life. Now I can start thinking in terms of color integration and reflected lights.