'TEA'
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'Tea' is a 30"x30" acrylic on canvas that speaks to my current desire to live in the country :)

1. Took out a large canvas and sat under the tree in my yard to paint. The dappled sunlight gave me the idea to "work" with light for this painting.	2. The light on the painting so far is not paint, it's the sun. :) Here I add bushes, not really knowing where I'm going with this yet. This is an unplanned painting, just going with the mood to paint.
3. Here's a close-up of the ladies so far	4. Starting to play with light on the lawn, on the umbrella, and on the bushes.
5. I add a tree and play with the light some more. I've never done trees like this before and figure out that the right brush basically does it for you. I just tapped a 1" flat brush gone messy onto the canvas and didn't have to work too hard at making it look tree-like. I started with black blobs, which lemme tell ya, took a bit of courage! At this point, I'm still thinking (absently) that all the blue is water.	6. With the same brush, (dry-ish, by the way) I add green to the trees with the same technique and stand back thinking, "Wow, you'd think I knew what the hell I was doing!" I add what I hope looks like dappled light to the lawn, :) and add a curved black line to signify hilliness.
7. Well I guess I got into it, because this is the next picture I took! As you can see, the painting has filled out somewhat! Same technique on all the trees, and I added a pond behind them.	8. In this final version, I changed the umbrella to red and added a fringe, since it merged into the pond too much color-wise. I defined the ladies and their chairs, added more bushes at the front of the painting, painted the sky blue, tweaked the pond, and added a path. Click on it :)

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