I pulled out this painting that I haven't worked on in a long while (see posts on 29 May 2010 and 08 August 2013).
I started by indicating lightly with pencil the distant shoreline first, then added a couple of islands into the lake one further back than the other and added some trees onto both. Lastly, I added an island on the left side of the painting close to the foreground and put in the main pine tree trunks on top of the rocks.
I added another layer of raw sienna into the water just below the sky to darken the reflected colour slightly.
Once that dried I applied a pale wash of alizarin crimson just above it to indicate the rocky shoreline.
Next I made various green mixtures using Antwerp blue, French ultramarine blue, raw sienna and aureolin.
I started with the distant shoreline and put in trees above the rocks across to just beyond the rocks of the second island as I knew some of them would be covered by the trees on both of the island.
With a slightly darker mixture of green I put two pine trees onto the smaller island on the left side first.
To finish the trees on the first island I made a dark colour by adding alizarin crimson to some of the darker green and painted in the dead tree.
Going back to the green from the first island I started putting in the largest pine tree when I was interrupted by unexpected company.
I will post this painting at a later date as I complete more work on the various islands.
