Yup, same wip!

Finally getting to the point where it's just the main characters involved.  Brought the mid and foreground grasses to a just-short-of-finished state.  Once the major players are built up, I'll need to go back and address everything else again to get it all to the same finished look.  Color, values, edges, and drawing will all get another round of scrutinizing once I 'think' I'm done.

WIP again

Finished off the tree group to the right today. Started in on the mid/foreground grass.  I cut the top of the pic off by accident.  I missed a lot of what got done today!

Still the same WIP

I'm almost done messing with the middle ground now.  I always have a hard time switching from background to middle ground for some reason. It's where I usually end up experimenting so much the thing gets overworked.  But I'm getting wiser to my own forms of sabotage.  Still need to finish off the upper right hand side but that won't take long at all. Then I can finally get into the foreground, tweak the color and bring out the composition's high points.

Didn't get much done today. I woke up to find out someone was busy with my credit card # over the weekend. So I only had a chance to start in on dividing the grass masses and defining them, mixing a couple more colors and a little experimentation.

I reclaimed my values today and basically overhauled the values and color in the whole painting. Once values are corrected in one place it's typically necessary to adjust the values in the whole painting. The last two days should count as my two steps backward. Tomorrow or monday will be my one step forward again. I always have a hiccup somewhere in my pictures that I need to address. I don't want it as such but I'm afraid it's become part of my painting process. Dead color and weak values first, then go back in with the real colors and values.

You know that part in Jurassic Park 1 where the boy and the adult scientist guy are stuck in a car in a tree? While they're climbing down the tree, the car starts to break the branches and threatens to fall on them all the way down until they're on the ground and the car has fallen over the top of them and the boy says, "Well, we're back in the car." That's how I feel today. I was too frustrated yesterday to post anything because I ended up wiping the entire right side of the picture. Today it's been redone and now I'm exactly where I was before I started yesterday. Such is life.

Only worked on the right tree group today.