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Shady Copse – Day 11 (and a quick study)

Here’s today’s progress on Shady Copse, half an hour:

And here’s quick 1.5-hour study of a marsh. Working on foliage and whatnot. Also trying to make the sky glow.

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Shady Copse - Day 10

Another hour today. Almost there.

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Shady Copse - Day 9

0.7 hours today. Trying to simplify a little bit, as well as introduce some variation in that line defining the edge of the field behind the trees.

Shady Copse - Day 9, 7.1 hours

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Shady Copse - Day 8

It's getting to that point where I should probably think about stopping; otherwise I'm liable to overwork it like crazy. Another hour today.

I might want to consider cropping it. Not sure yet. I'd either have to take a little bit off the bottom or a lot off the top.

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Shady Copse - Day 7

A full hour today. It's coming along.

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Shady Copse - Day 6

Another 45 minutes today. Added some more color into the foliage and also started defining this foreground tree a little bit more. Sadly, there were a lot of chores that really needed to get done, so I couldn't stand at my easel and paint all day.

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Shady Copse - Day 5

Another half hour. Need to stop trying to do All The Things so I can focus on doing art! But it's hard to give things up, so I keep trying to do it all...

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Shady Copse - Day 4

Another half hour today. Still slowly adding green.

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Shady Copse - Day 3

Not much time today, but I made the decision to start adding greens.

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Shady Copse - Day 1 & 2

Yesterday I did an underpainting with sumi ink:

Then I added yellow ochre pastel on top of the underpainting, and brushed that with rubbing alcohol to produce a toned surface:

And today, I started going over that underpainting with other colors, trying to stay loose:

So far, I haven't yet added any actual green; I'm just playing with color temperature. Not sure whether I'll add green in the future or not. More next week, or perhaps this weekend if I feel particularly ambitious.