Yay for long weekends! I have finished the painting. I’m calling it Summer Morning  – that’s the feeling I get from this scene. It’s a little humid, the rising sun is burning off the mist. The leaves aren’t all green – they know fall is coming. Stay tuned for the next wip! I had such [...]

Well I’m closing in on the end of the painting. I love the bright yellows and greens playing against the blue of the sky and the background foliage. I can’t imagine not working on this one anymore, but I think 2 more weekends and I’ll be done!

The trunk has arrived! Now I can almost get a sense of the final piece – I want to see some more trunk and finish off those foreground leaves. I want to convey one of those late summer mornings. The sun hasn’t yet burned the mist off. It will be hot later, but for now [...]

I got a fair bit done this weekend. I have only a little more of the background to go and then I can do the rest of the foreground leaves and then finally the trunk – yay I can’t believe I started this on January 19th – it’s been nearly 2 months! I want to [...]

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 [...]