With my “black canvas” painting, just in the past week, I’ve had 3 experiments with no successes. That’s the breaks! I didn’t take photos of the failed experiments, unfortunately, so you can’t see what I’m referring to — you’ll just have to take my word for it! The upshot is that when i went to class last week and showed Ed (teacher) my efforts, he agreed with me that the wisest course of action would be to paint over the whole upper part of the water area with black — again! So, that’s where i am with the water.
Meanwhile, with the hillside/boulders, etc. I’ve still got plenty to do to get the effects i want. I worked on the trees in the background — now need to mute the background of the trees in the distance. Have also been working to try to get the top of the boulders/hillside look like the top instead of looking like the side. Not there yet. The blue paint at the bottom of the painting is going to be part of the reflections — that’s not there yet, either!
LJ and NJ 