Right now I’m blocking in first washes in some areas, second washes in others, and started finding where shadows are falling in still other areas. Still a very long way to go but once the white of the paper is covered it is less daunting. The main thing to get right at this stage is the values, not the colour.
Second wash was put on some areas and first wash on others the sky in the middle will mostly be covered by trees and leaves in the finished painting. It just needs to be there to be seen between the leaves mostly. The paper is still wet there and buckled but will even out as it dries.
I applied the first of many large areas of colour washes but these will take a few hours of drying before it’s safe to put on the next layers.
This commission has been sitting on my easel for far too long. It will be the last commission I do. From now on I will paint for shows or just for pleasure. It is a full sheet (22 x 30”) and will be watercolour. It took forever to do the drawing and figure out how to paint the lattice work and shadows under the siding. I was able to do those so that it is finally dark enough to see something on my post here. The green tape around it is holding it onto a backing board while I work on it.
