Hmm. This is either going to turn out amazing or awful. Long vertical pictures hurt my brain, and I do not understand why. Maybe I just need to paint trees over and over until I figure out how to process how they take up space in a forest.

Slowly. But hopefully, after a short rest-break for my back, even more progress will be made. The gooey, clear medium that I bought years ago and then was never able to use because it made my oils shiny, is doing good work here as a base coat.

One of these days I have to work out a better method for painting dead leaves on the forest floor. What I am doing is *acceptable* at a certain viewing distance, but it's not as refined as I'd like.

Emotional support, though, is close at hand:

With a combination of adequate feline supervision and support, a critique from my son, and o-n-e more painting session, I finished it.

While there are one or two things I could improve, I think the basic impulse to start with clear medium and build layers of paint on top of that was sound. The wood is walnut and, although the layer around the painting is light, the wood under the painting is a rich, deep brown that shows through in many areas.

Hmm. This is either going to turn out amazing or awful. Long vertical pictures hurt my brain, and I do not understand why. Maybe I just need to paint trees over and over until I figure out how to process how they take up space in a forest.

Slowly. But hopefully, after a short rest-break for my back, even more progress will be made. The gooey, clear medium that I bought years ago and then was never able to use because it made my oils shiny, is doing good work here as a base coat.

One of these days I have to work out a better method for painting dead leaves on the forest floor. What I am doing is *acceptable* at a certain viewing distance, but it's not as refined as I'd like.

Emotional support, though, is close at hand: