I got a lot more of the foreground forest completed. I love the way the purples and greens I’m using look blue against all the oranges. I think if I used actual blue it would look completely out of place.

I really wanted to see what the bottom area of the painting looks like. This is almost ground level and the trunks are in shadow with lots of dark reds, purples and greens.

Here’s where I stopped yesterday. I now have a good feel for how all the trees will relate to each other.

Working along on this one. I really wanted to see the sky so I snuck up and put some in And there are four pines near the back deep in coversation. I’m not sure all this talking will help, but I can see they feel it’s important to stick together