Thanks. My experience is that while trying to paint Arkansas scenes everything is overwhelmed with GREENS! Can’t get away from it.
When I did a painting of my barn I had to do a fall scene with dead grass around to break up the overwhelming greens.
I notice all my paintings of Arkansas are mostly fall scenes as there are more color variations at that time, whereas spring is GREEN!
I have lived here for around fifty years yet I know more about Oklahoma than Arkansas, but I do miss my New Mexico and the Four Corners region.
This is a nice example from the paintings of Margaret Speer, of handling an Arkansas Ozark landscape in a striking manner via high contrast and an unusual color palette that works on several levels, even as an abstraction:
http://www.biddingtons.com/os/itemhtml/ht503172.shtml?503172