A few weeks ago i posted an underpainting for a bird house. As it happened, just as i was beginning to add color, etc., we had a lesson in painting class about hints for learning to paint more loosely. One of teacher’s suggestions was that we work to make part of a painting realistic and other parts more impressionistic— and that we work fast, not worrying too much about details. So i decided to take this bird house project and make the bird house hopefully look like a bird house. But then take the foliage — basically the left side of the painting — and be more casual with it. I used several different brushes and also did some work with a palette knife. It’s not really finished, but i thought i’d go ahead and post what i’ve got.