Keep up the good work .

Thanks, Julie :)

Today's work:
Changed the colour on the left hand side to a cooler one, it was too warm.
Some minor tweaks on the right hand side of Mt Shasta.

Then darkened the trees at the base of the mountain. These will be partly covered by mist later on.
In order to finish the mist it'll have to be completely dry first.




Just to compare... this is the same canvas, the way I'd painted it in 2015.

These are Absolutely Beautiful...

My oldest Grand daughter free hands from pictures or just looking at stuff.. It amazes me when I see those that can paint like this...

Finally talked her in to taking a apprenticeship at a Tattoo Shop since she loves to draw so much & paint..

You defiantly have a talent....

Thank you so much, Kristi!
And I bet you're proud of your grand daughter!

I agree with Txgal .

Thank you, Julie! :)

Well, I'm pretty much done with it.
Took me a few session to get both the mist back in, properly this time, and do the foreground trees.
These were deep dark purple without definition, now they're dark green and you can see definition of trees in there.
This is more accurate as I could see the trees when I zoomed into the reference photo.

I'm calling it a finished painting, and I'm happy with it now!
As it is I'm okay to put it up for sale. The way it was, not so much, hihi.

Nice job .

Thanks, Julie :)

Close to calling this a finished painting!
Next session will be some minor tweaks and deciding which shadow on the wings I'll keep, left or right. Or maybe an in between version.

The Phoenix had to wait for near 15 years to get its wings properly done, believe it or not.
I tried a few years back, failed, put it back upstairs.

Now that I'm re-familiarised myself with oils I decided to finally do it.
I did attempt to paint realistic wings, then it suddenly dawned on me that didn't suit the painting at all!
I was looking at the tail and figured I wanted the wings to be kind of like that.

Going to be glad when this one is done! I've never struggled with any painting as much as with this one!

Nice painting !

Thank you, Julie :)

I finished my Phoenix painting last night!
Had to do some minor details and paint in the missing 4th talon.
I hadn't even noticed that until 2 days back they were missing. Without it it'd be impossible to sit on a branch or grab something.
So that had to be fixed!

After it'd been living in the "dunno what to do with this painting" space upstairs for 15 years (!!) I'm now very happy with it and I do intend to find a spot somewhere on a wall :D

Very good .

Thanks, Julie :D

Thank you so much!! Both AngelBlue & StrandedSnowMonkey :)

OT --- I began a new 'revision' of a painting, hihi.
I had been thinking about that as I was finishing up the Phoenix. It's another one that I had finished before but was never happy with.
Now I want to get it right!

I began the painting in 2012, then later on in 2015 did a 1st attempt to finish it, and failed.
I just wasn't feeling it and it ended up in storage like this:


Then in 2023 I'd started playing with a new style of painting, tried it with this canvas, but didn't quite work out the way I had hoped since it's oil painting.
It ended up like this, finihed in a way but me still not liking it.




Then I had an idea a couple of days ago. So this afternoon I sanded parts of it till it was quite smooth, this evening gesso-ed it.
It looks a bit weird with the white horizontal above the city/castle but I decided I wanted to get rid of that bridge and all the waterfalls to the left.

Now I got this, tomorrow I can start with paint (it's too late now for me, half past 9).
I think this is the biggest change I've ever done on a painting, hihi.
But... this time I know how I want it to look, so I'm certain I'm going to end up with a painting that makes me happy! :D


The white is Gesso (primer). So this is NOT a finished painting!!!

All your paintings are good .

Thank you so much, Julie!
Does me good to hear that

An afternoon of painting, got this now.
NOT finished!

When this part is done and dry I will make minor corrections on the city/castle as the horizon line wasn't correct. That always annoyed me.
I'm going get that sorted as well before I call it a finished painting.

Would've been easier & more logical to begin with that, but yeah... I couldn't wait to get going with this part, hihi.

The arch part itself is also NOT finished!!