Caroline blocking in a landscape (oil pastel)

Caroline has a real flare for landscape painting.  Notice how she has divided her composition into three big, interlocking  shapes that  pull the eye across and around her picture and define the various elements:  Sky spanning the upper section, trees and land in the roughly triangular area near the middle and right of her page, and water, defined by the somewhat rectangular shape below.   By blocking in her big shapes, Caroline establishes unity and balance in her composition before proceeding to fill in the details.  Great start!