Summer’s End – 36 x 48 – Acrylic on Wood Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art I’m having a terrible time getting good photos of this painting. I think I have it now, though. So just a little more to do on the background forest and then back to the weeds and water.

Summer’s End – 36 x 48 – Acrylic on Wood Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art Now on to the background trees. Muted, and still with some summer greens, they are starting to show the effects of the cooler weather.

Summer’s End – 36 x 48 – Acrylic on Wood Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art The sky is now complete. What I thought would take me about 10 hours took closer to 30! A roiling sea of greys, greens, purples and of course blue, it mirrors the lake below in colour but not in intensity [...]

Summer’s End – 36 x 48 – Acrylic on Wood Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art More sky! It’s taking longer than I thought, but that’s okay. I’m not complaining. Really. I do love watching how this is turning out. And I’m having a heck of a time taking these wip photos – it’s so big [...]

Summer’s End – 36 x 48 – Acrylic on Wood Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art Yay, the sky. I’m pulling some of the same colours that are in the lake and filling the sky with clouds and movement.

Summer’s End – 36 x 48 – Acrylic on Wood Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art We now interrupt the pursuit of the sky to bring you the trees from far far away… Just starting to show the fall colours to come, the trees are a subdued (for me) mix of grey-green, mauve and muted peach.

Summer’s End – 36 x 48 – Acrylic on Wood Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art I’ve added some more of the orange weeds to the left – a drastic change that was not part of the original plan. But I’m glad I deviated. Sometimes I can’t get the paint on the panel fast enough – [...]

Summer’s End – 36 x 48 – Acrylic on Wood Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art Not a lot of the drastic changes are actually visible yet – they are still swimming around in my head. But still, I did get a fair bit done. Next up I have to integrate some more of the foreground [...]

Summer’s End – 36 x 48 – Acrylic on Wood Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art Not completely following protocol  – lol. But I just couldn’t wait any longer! I really wanted to see what the area beyond the lake looks like. I feel much better now. But I will have to go back to the [...]