Progress: Still Life #2

Since basically starting most of the painting from scratch, things have gone a lot better. I have been trying to keep a relatively consistent height when viewing the still life I am painting in order to avoid any more issues with perspective. Overall I am much more happy with how the painting is looking since then. I have also tried to be less absolute with the grading in between colors and to try and understand how to crate small tonal differences to create form rather than just blocking out colors.

I think one of my biggest challenges so far has been the flowers. There are lots of very small details in the flowers that have been really hard to convey in the painting. There are also portions of the flowers that when compared with the background have very little difference tonally, which has made painting them somewhat hard. I have found certain ways to create very small differences though, and in some places I realized that it would be easier to wait and convey the difference once I began color glazing. Overall though I am very happy with the direction the painting is heading in, and I am very glad I made the decision to redo some of the parts that just didn't look right.