'The Queens Gate' - finished

I did enjoy painting this one. There is great satisfaction going from the deepest shade to the full glare of the sun. The hollyhocks shimmered between the light and dark and are quite hard to see as your eye adjusts between the extremes of light.

Progress ongoing!

I will need to wait a week before all these are dry enough to paint on again. Every painting I do I try to be better then the previous one. There is no magic moment of ... trumpets blowing ... of "I done it" but only the graft of "next one better".

'The Queen's Gate',

The under-painting on this canvas is a rich indigo for the shadows. I drew using the usual charcoal and pastel for the pink and green. I needed to see the colour balanced against the deep shadows. I am very pleased with the mark making of the lane and I hope I can keep it going.