In the morning, I repainted most of the ground, adding the shadows and darkening the greens. I felt like I was painting with dirty colors, but my copy still looks brighter than the original. I also painted around both dogs' heads, because I thought they should be a little smaller. Here is my progress at lunch time:
Lunch was fun, because Roxane and I stumbled upon a room in the back of the cafeteria where kids were making art! We were invited in to either make buttons or postcards. We both opted for buttons! They had a badge-a-minute machine, and gave us paper circles to decorate. There were colored pencils and watercolor crayons on the tables. I grabbed a book about Cezanne and copied one of his self portraits. Here is what I made!
After lunch, I put the yellow on the trees' leaves near the column. I made a darker, warmer white for the white dog's coat by adding cadmium yellow and alizarin to the white, and scumbled it over the white dog. I think it's still too cold a white, but that might just be the way the light is hitting it.
That's about all I got done today. Back in two weeks!
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