I began building up detail and refining areas. Here are some close ups as well as the final result of my day’s work.

Day 2 and I’m on fire! Working primarily dark to light, I’m blocking in the color in an impressionistic manner, keeping space between brushstrokes. This helps to keep the colors from muddying early on. One of the keys to a unified color palette is to seed bits of color around the painting. There are bits of purple and peach in the blue sky, tones of blue and purple in the …

I’m working on a new monterey cypress commission for a couple in France.