I continue to go over my colors. My palette consists of burnt umber, a bit of cadmium red, Winsor blue, cadmium yellow, sap green, and white. I layer over the background with a bit more burnt umber mixed with a touch of the red. I find it’s a bit too dark, so I add a touch of yellow and it starts to look a bit like burnt sienna.
I then take my Winsor blue and start layering over the pond portion. As I go along, I add a bit of yellow to give it more of a blue green effect. I am studying Marion’s reference photo and at the same time looking at Monet’s version. I really don’t know how I want this to look yet, and I feel it may be too dark.
I add in some sap green, white and some burnt umber with yellow in the background for where I think I might want some trees. I want this to be more of my own painting, and do not want to totally copy Marion’s photo or Monet’s painting. I keep looking at it and feel as though I am stumped, what to do next? What type of trees do I want?
I am not sure, and today there is not much time for painting, so I decide to let the rest go and come back to it another time, when I feel a bit more energized other than to continue on when I just can’t seem to get that creativity moving.
