LJ and NJ

Past couple of days i began working on the boulders and also filled in some of the branches and leaves on the trees.  These rocks are so different from the ones in the painting i just recently finished.  The “old” rocks were pretty easy to paint, as the main challenge was getting the shapes and the values correct.  These rocks – in the current project — are complicated by issues of hue and texture in addition to all the shape and value issues.  So – I’m not even close to having these rocks be as they need to be.  But thought I’d post anyway, and hopefully there will be noticeable progress when i post again.