Reflecting on the Dunes

This will be a short post, just thought I'd post up a little painting of mine from a couple of years back. This is a watercolor that I discovered in my portfolio...one that I painted in my watercolor class.
I remember wanting to be done with it so badly, but my teacher would peek her head over my shoulder and say, "why don't you make those bushes darker..." Oh goodness! Darker!?!? I had already been dabbing the liquidy green paint over and over again for at least 30 minutes..wasn't it dark enough? Apparently not ;) So, I sat there just dipping and dabbing... until I became to tired of repeating that and decided it was dark enough.

The one thing in this picture that makes me cringe every time I see it is the tree....I don't know what happened there, but it came out a bit wonkey! ;) I was pleased with the bushes though...although they took me a very long time to complete.