Red Leaves in the Woods (Oil Bar Painting as of June 7, 2013)

Red Leaves in the Woods (Oil Bar Painting as of June 7, 2013), a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

This is my oil bar painting in progress as it looked yesterday. (I am still behind by one day in posting here.) This is a painting of the woods just outside Long Hill Gardens here in Beverly, MA. I took a photo there last October, and am using it as a very loose reference. Yesterday I worked on some areas of foliage that looked a bit too flat and blocky. I made a lot of very small corrections. I was pretty happy with the painting yesterday, and thought I was finished. But after I took a picture of the painting, I realized that I need to strengthen the trees on the left side of the canvas, for balance. So this is not done yet. To be continued. . . .