Day 8 - The Overlooking Chinar Tree

I personally loved making this one, I've always wanted to do chinar in colour, I've done in with pencil shading before. This is oil on handmade paper, using palette knife and brushes. Technically, oil colours ought to be done on canvas, but canvas is costly and I'm just practising, so I used handmade paper. When I do oil on canvas, I go for several coats, large canvases, and take months to do so due to long drying time. This was done in a couple of hours - I applied a very thin coat for the sky and water, and used the palette knife for the mountain. 

Then I left it for a while, then did the tree and the two shikaras. For the tree, I used a lot of autumn colours - Vandyke brown, Scarlet Lake, Indian Yellow, Gold ochre transparent, Raw umber, Burnt Umber, Indigo, and white. As a last minute thing, I did some of the darkest branches with the palette knife to make them stand out.