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 the paints and leave the painting about half done. Today I was able to devote the morning to putting on the color layer. There is no attention to details. The shadow areas in oil are usually painted first. In the background, this is done and lighter leaf colors will be painted on top of this later. In the foreground, since the lane is in the dappled light of the trees, the shadows will be added later as a glaze on top of the road color. You can still see the underpainting peeking through the color layer. After this dries in a day or so, I will start concentrating on more details, but trying to work over the entire painting at the same time and not over do one area.
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