New Artwork In Progress Part Two

Hello Everyone

Just a quick update on how  my five new paintings are progressing.  Before I began painting this set of new scenes I decided to only paint at the weekends and do all the business stuff during the week. It's Monday today, blog day and a chance to reflect on how the painting went  this weekend.  I concentrated on the garden scene with the arch trellis because i felt more inspiration toward it due to a dream I had, and it is typical of how I operate.  I always have intentions to work on all five paintings from start to finish but I end up feeling more inspiration for a particular painting than the others, and once that one is nearly finished, or finished I then have more of a pull toward one of the others and I work on that one in the same way.   The reason I feel a rush of inspiration for this painting is down to a dream I had about it. I dreamed a curator of a top art gallery saw the five paintings in their half finished state and said they were really good but a bit flat and I had to work on my chiaroscuro.  I took that as my subconscious  giving me hints on how to make my work more beautiful, and I know what I am going to do next to make it a reality  but I won't share with you just yet, you will have to wait and see.

I painted in the sky and trees on the right hand side of the painting, I know the over all scene looks really green but that is mainly down to the camera I used.  What you are seeing at the moment is the basic colours that  have been put down and I will build it up from here.  I have lots of ideas of what flowers and plants I would like to see at the sides of the painting, but I am having trouble whittling them down to about three or four different types.  The painting of the foreground went a bit wrong, I used too much water in the paint mix and on the brush, and it took off the existing paint as I applied a second layer.  After it was dry I applied another layer of paint using a dry brush and it sorted out the problem.  I painted the trees in with ease and the first application of the grass on the right went down easily, I am looking forward to putting more detail on top of it.

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