Some more trial and error

I wanted to try another composition but finally I'll go back to an earlier concept and work off of that.

Not happy

Ok I though I could have turned this into my final piece, I even started it in a 16:9 format, but I don't like it, something is wrong, so unless anyone has an idea on how to fix it, I am scraping it and starting again.

Having done all my other paintings on an A4 format means I need to rethink completly my painting and composition strategy. The painting is too milky.

I am scraping that the more I look at it the more I hate it. This is done.

I have got the week-end to come up with all the right drawings for my three pieces, so that I can concentrate on the final painting.

Thumbnails

I did these quick thumbnails to try and finalize the details of the third piece. The boat and the dinosaurs will hopefully tie in the piece with the Lost World. Thanks Phill for showing me the Hudson River School, their work really fits my vision for the Lost World, though mine won't be as epic. 

Another preparatory drawing

I stayed with the same tonalities, red and blue, yet I am not too satisfied with it based on the project. I will talk about what is wrong in this picture and hopefully try and fix it.

- I feel it needs a bit more Lost World, without altering too much the image into a gag like Jurassic Park.
- I want the colour storm to be more present in the foreground.
-And more but I am not sure what it is.

If anyone has any advice my ears are open.

I still need to find a way to include a deer in there, as I feel he is essential symbolically to the piece.

I have a feeling I should go more towards the turquoise and salmon pink of my earlier concept, though I am not too sure yet, probably of mix of the two sets, red-blue turqoise-salmon pink, would be preferable. 

Their are more variations in the colours, which makes this piece chromatically more pleasing to my eye.

Quick colour sketch for Third Piece