Sky first
Most distant range next
Things got confusing, so I flipped it all upside down to see if I could focus better on the shapes.
Moving forward
Hi Jackson. Please do not bite me while I am painting. It would also be appreciated if you didn’t lean on the back of my legs.
Can I get all the different groves, fields, and patches in? How important is it to get each one perfect? The customers said it isn’t, but accuracy is a driving force as I paint.
The roof of the house is now in the lower left. There will be blueberries covering most of the house, a decorative addition. They will be balanced by avocado leaves in the upper right corner.
Now it can dry a bit before I continue adding and tightening the detail.
REMINDER
I can help people write books and get them printed. The books that I have shepherded from idea to publication but that I don’t sell can be found on this new page: OTHER PEOPLE’S BOOKS. This includes Tales of TB, Springville’s Hospital, The Crooked Cross of Diamond Lake, Only the Living, and Adventures in Boy Scouting.
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Looking gorgeous! I love how you turn it upside down to see the shapes!
Thank you, Michelle! I have come to rely on the upside down (or sideways) approach to seeing shapes, so much so that it is troubling to paint a mural without that beneficial technique.
I can see the roof of the house, but what is all that white fluff in the lower left corner? A cotton plant in the foreground? Smoke from an almost extinguished fire? Steam from a coal-burning locomotive? A giant quartz boulder? I’m flummoxed!
Sharon, that stuff will become blueberries! I wrote: ‘There will be blueberries covering most of the house, a decorative addition’.