Reflections (Oil Bar Painting as of August 21, 2013)

Reflections (Oil Bar Painting as of August 21, 2013), a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

Here is my oil bar painting in progress as it looked on August 21 (last Wednesday). Despite the gaps in my posts, I worked every morning on this landscape. This painting based on a photo that I took at Bradley Palmer State Park. (The reference photo is posted here on June 14, 2013.) So last Wednesday, although I thought the painting was almost finished, I decided to rework the tree-tops (the top few inches of the canvas), making the branches more graceful. I also added suggestions of branches to some of the foliage shapes, to make it clearer how the foliage is connected to the tree trunks. This is a lot of detail, but it makes a difference. I plan to post the closeup view tomorrow.