By this time the sky is pretty well laid in and I’ve started to render the shadows of the landscape masses. As often happens, I decided I had incorrectly visualized the shadows and structure of some of the landscape shapes so I had to fix those as I painted them in. 7/9
I often do a study or two of the main characters which then become my “models” while I am doing the actual painting. The study on the left is a painted sketch of the figures and some tentative plant forms. 8/9