Progress.

Here is what the painting of Solomon's Island from the drawing and photo in earlier posts is looking like after the first session. Overall, I think it's a good start. I need to work on the values of the house, and need to ensure I'm not getting too "pastel" with my colors. I'm thinking of how Hopper simplifies his shapes and colors when painting this type of scene.

I'm actually a little excited about doing a painting like this. That is, photographing it and analyzing it along the way. I often wonder if an area I painted over in an earlier session was better than how it ended up in the final painting.