Reflections (Oil Bar Painting as of August 18, 2013)

Reflections (Oil Bar Painting as of August 18, 2013), a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

Here is my oil bar painting in progress as it looked on August 18, 2013. This landscape is based on a photo that I took at Bradley Palmer State Park in Topsfield, MA (posted here June 14.) I have been working on this painting every morning and progress seems slow, somedays slower than others. Back on August 18th, thinking that I was very close to finished, I was concentrating on adding touches of light and dark to create shape and texture in the foliage. I was happy with what I did. But of course, I wasn't finished, and these weren't finishing touches.