Here’s the progress from this weekend. It’s starting to come together as a whole now and I can see how the main foliage sits against the background. I can hardly wait ’til I get to the main trunk

I worked some more on the background this weekend. I’m going to go back to the main leaves next I think and make sure they work with the distant trees.

Here’s a little more from this weekend.

Still working on both the background and foreground. I’m looking forward to getting to the top left, there’s going to be some sky there – exciting!

After Sunday’s work. I did have a bit of trouble on the bottom left but I think I have it sorted out. My shapes were getting too busy and the colours weren’t being pushed back enough. I’ll have to keep an eye on it as I move around the painting.

After today’s session… I wanted to get over to the bottom left – I’m thinking it could  cause trouble.  We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. But it’s definitely coming along. I need to paint the edges soon (actually I should do them before I hit an edge so that I have the mixed colours in [...]