Everything went pretty smoothly on this today - no major hickups and it all just seemed to flow off the brush. It’s a real joy when that happens - decisions are made easily and instinctively and there seems to be a cooperation between the me and painting rather than a struggle. I guess in this case it comes from completing the left hand for-ground section in the previous session and learning from that work how I could easily achieve what I wanted in the rest of the foreground.
Basically I just layed down all my darks first and worked on top of that with successively lighter values. This will tend to give you a darker effect than laying down each value separately, but in this case I wanted the for-ground to be fairly dark to enhance the light in the background.
I’ve created a different lighting condition in the for-ground compared to the background, something that I found worked really nicely in a previous painting (below). The background shows a sunrise but the for-ground is lit by light from a sunset in the opposite direction. That way you get the best of both worlds.
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