I come back to my painting with a fresh outlook and start to add in some trees and branches. I am using burnt umber once again along with the red and cad yellow. I work some leaves with the sap green and also with permanent green light with white here and there.
I try adding in some Winsor blue with the greens and find I am having a hard time blending. I use some glazing medium and it starts to move a bit better. I am still not used to the acrylics and their fast drying time.
Having worked with oils, I am more used to a longer drying period and much easier blending. I find myself getting a bit frustrated with the acrylics. I am looking at the reference photo and trying to get the colors to look somewhat like the photo. It’s not really working.
I continue to keep going over the background with the burnt umber, red and yellow trying to get somewhat the type of look that Monet’s original had, but that’s not working well either. So I go on to the pond and add some cerulean blue to lighten it in some places and continue to use the Winsor blue here and there for shadows.
I am still wondering how this is going to end up. There are times when I start a painting and I know what I want to do, but it just doesn’t come. This seems to be one of those times.
