Branch with Golden Berries (Oil Bar Painting as of Dec. 6, 2013)

Branch with Golden Berries (Oil Bar Painting as of Dec. 6, 2013), a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

This is my oil bar painting as of December 6. I have been trying to lay in the background, finding darks and lights. (I am using one of my posterized photos as a reference, posted here Dec. 1.) It is fun getting lost in all those leaves, but I think the next step will be to simplify the background and re-emphasize the main lines of the branches. There are also some adjustments that I want to make to the composition.