Tree and Hillside (Oil Bar Painting as of February 21, 2015)

This morning I worked on this painting, a landscape of a scene at Appleton Farms in Ipswich, MA, based on photos that I took there in late October. (I have posted my reference photos here, January 2nd and 3rd.) Today I mixed some pale blue and concentrated on sharpening the lines of the branches and defining the negative spaces, adding touches of pale blue to suggest the sky peeking through the leaves. This involved making a lot of small changes that might not be noticed one at a time, but taken together, I think they do make a difference.