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Trio depart Beijing on epic horse ride to London

Adobe House, the saga continues

Up bright and surly this morning to work on the painting and get other tasks done before the need to run and find electric fencing supplies to finish the pasture fence at my mother’s old pasture.
I glazed and defined more of the shadow areas with my favorite shadow mixture of burnt umber and ultramarine blue [...]

First color

When I start a painting, after the underpainting is dry, I like to try and put color all over the painting. Not the exact colors, but more a loose, sketchy, color reference that strengthens the total work. The day I started the first color layer, for whatever reason, I was interrupted and had to cover [...]