I was not happy with the color of the water in this painting. Tried several different ideas, but ended up then deciding none were going to work. So over the past couple of weeks i’ve Worked with glazes, in an attempt to modulate the too-blue-too-green hue of the water. i went through a process of adding three glazes over a span of 6 or 7 days. Glaze was a very thinned mixture of walnut oil and a blue-grey mix. The result is an improvement, and i think i will proceed with beginning to modulate the hues and start to paint in the waves.
Meanwhile, there’s that big rock. So with that i’ve Been blocking in three or four basic values (with van dyke brown; burnt umber, and titanium white). At this stage i am not trying to do any detail on the rocks; but just try to get the values sort of realistic.
LJ and NJ 