Well, this is as far as i can go at this point with these chairs, which were a challenge, for sure! I experimented along the way with different sized brushes and with varying thicknesses of paint. At times the values were “off” as i tried to get the contrast between the fronts and backs of the chairs and still have the purples in the water “work”. Anyhow, i think they now deserve a rest.

For the past week or so i’ve been working mostly on the sky and the reflections in the water. That part of the painting has come along far enough that i ran out of excuses to begin to try to paint those two chairs. So — this is the bare start. I am aware, by the way, that i have not drawn in any seats for the chairs. Will have to figure out how to do that. I’m also aware that some of the angles are “off”. Hopefully in next couple of sessions i’ll be able to fix those. The paint underneath is still pretty wet, so i’m going to wait a bit. You can see how the colors have run together because of my lack of patience.

I started a new painting this week. The reference photo for this one is of a sunset over a lake at a village in Newfoundland, Canada, where we were vacationing this past summer. Normally with a new painting i work from the top down, or back to front. But for this one, i’m working first on the lower part of the painting — the grasses/lawn. That is because i want to put the chairs in last. So far there is just one coat of paint on the whole thing, so the colors and patterns of the sky and the reflections in the water await a lot of attention.