Painting the Oregon Landscape

Returning home from the beautiful state of Oregon, I have been challenged to paint the Oregon landscape.  Balancing watercolor with pastel is always a challenge but I find it especially true when painting in hues of green.  Even with many shades of green pastels on my palette it is hard to find just the right one.

I found it helped relieve some of the green by adding a body of water in the mid-ground and a contrasting land mass in the foreground.

Another thing that kept me away from too much green was working other colors, yellows and violets into the greens. 

To avoid the forest of trees becoming overwhelming, I have limited the number of tree shapes, grouping them as I created visual pathways through the painting.