Fall will not do, too bright

Looks fine to me!

 

Check this out

 

http://photographs.mccumber.us...n-yough-river-pa.jpg

 

 

 

I posted the photo but saw the copyright and didn't want to disrespect the photographer.  

 

Dave

Autumn is not an easy thing to model. Here are a few suggestions;

 

To blend the backdrop better with your scenery, make the painted grass a color that closely matches your ground foam.

 

Remove the red splotches from the yellow tree on the left. Try painting a wash of orange and light green onto its yellow foliage instead. Also, you might want to lightly mist brown spray paint to mute the bright colors. Rust, maroon, and brown are all realistic, muted fall colors.

 

Don't make the painted tree trunks in the backdrop so prominent or so brown. It will look better if they are gray and blend in with the background.

 

Add some evergreen trees to the backdrop and the scenery to break up the autumn colors.

 

The foliage on your backdrop trees is very well done.

Think colors are fine for most part. Actually made mine a bit brighter, because its a basement layout with no natural light. When one looks at natural photos , time (what stage of color) and light make huge differences in what a scene looks like.

 

Adding evergreens is a good suggestion

 

bill d

Thanks! I have already muted the red and added a gray wash to the tree trunks, much better. I think I will continue with the scene in the foreground. I realized that the great white "blank canvas" in front was forcing me to focus only on the backdrop.

 

Malcolm

Autumn colors can be pretty crazy and "unbelievable" when you try to represent them. I've done a couple fall scene landscapes... Tough.

I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Trying to meld or match the colors more between the 3-d model scenery (trees & foam) is a good idea and might help "settle" the scene. I'm not bothered by the prominent brown painted tree trunks as they match the 3-D trees.

That said, I have a couple suggestions based up my experience painting an Autumn landscape. Add a little green, either evergreen or deciduous trees not fully turned yet. Note how in the pic David linked to there is some green. Also maybe add some clouds for depth. That can be tough. I've been painting landscape paintings with clouds for decades... Not easy to get a nice depth of field but they do add a lot to create a "scene".

Practice. Practice. Practice.

I'm sure things will come together and a great layout will develop. Looking forward to seeing more.

All the trees do not turn at the same time. It looks better to have about a third of them in a muted green, with the colorful ones among them. Your "real trees" look fine, just add some muted green to the painted background.

All fall trees aren't red or yellow Locust are a pale green, oaks are orange . I use stick weeds and air conditioning  filter material and just a cheap rattle can paint
You can also use natural hemp to create dead grass if you want
It seems that you need to put more fall trees in than summer trees to get it to look right
mix them up with pine trees . Here's a pic of the air conditioning filter tree.

David