Grape Arbor (Oil Bar Painting as of Mar. 23, 2014)

Grape Arbor (Oil Bar Painting as of Mar. 23, 2014), a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

This is an oil bar painting, in progress. I am working from a photo that I took a few years ago, a picture of a grape arbor at Long Hill Gardens, here in Beverly, MA. (My reference photo is posted here on March 20, 2014.) Today I continued to work out placement and composition. I worked out some of the complications of the tangled vines. I am adding color when I need help seeing where things go, so some of these colors may change. I was surprised to find myself reaching for the alizarin crimson, but I could see it in the photograph. To be continued. . . .