23 September 2009 – Making progress! Have concentrated on the top one-third of the painting. The sky and distant landscape are completed and, I believe, inform the light for the rest of the canvas. The middle ground – I have found some long forgotten tubes of Transparent Oxide Yellow and Transparent Oxide Red — Am also mixing Indian Red, Mars Orange, Ochre and Chrome Oxide Green Opaque. This painting is taking on a life of it’s own — it’s like the movie “The Red Shoes” — Moira Shearer couldn’t stop dancing and I can’t stop painting! DC
