What's on Ellen's easel

 I’m calling this one finished. I again adjusted some values and colours and reached the end. I know when a painting is done when I’m holdin...

 Comparing the reference photo with the painting I saw the trees and some furniture shadows needed darkening. The dark values are what gives...

 The shadows were darkened all around the walls and darker areas in the trees added. But most of the session was for details in the furnitur...

 Another couple of hours concentrating on mostly the values. To achieve realism the lights and darks have to be right. Many paintings fail b...

 Today was mostly for the first washes on the trees on the right. I also worked on the shadows on the walls. Still a long way to go. The cor...

 Today the focus was on building up layers of vegetation on the trees on the left. I also started the first washes on the trees on the right...

 Work today was scattered all over the painting. I removed the masking fluid on the trees on the left after putting in the dark background. ...