30 Day Challenge - Day 19 - Auberge du Tresor WIP

The work on this picture continues.  You can see that I did go freehand now on the windows, but boy it stresses me out and makes me nervous.  Just not my thing I guess.

Anyway I have a lot more of the foreground in now and will pretty much for the main portions have just the horse and the carriage to go - but oh, let's don't be forgetting the next challenge is the wheels and those eclipse shapes.  Oh, can't forget there is going to be a lightly leafed tree in there as well and good for me, it should cover some of my windows.  Of course too I will have to put the name on the sign in gold leaf - it is only what should be expected.

This is giving me enough confidence that I probably will try some more landscape/cityscape type of pictures.  I have another down in the Lower town of Quebec, a street scene that I always wanted to do.  Maybe I will have a Quebec series heh?  I don't know, I have always shied away from landscapes thinking they just didn't work for me.  Maybe it is all the greens.

Thanks much for stopping by.

Comments

hmuxo said…
It's nice to see the progression on this piece!!!! Nice work!
September 20, 2016 at 9:25 AM
Mellowood Gallery said…
Considering your feelings about landscapes this is going very well. I am really looking forward to the finish.
September 20, 2016 at 12:16 PM
Jane said…
You are doing so well Nelvia, very elaborate work, but it comes along beautifully !
September 21, 2016 at 3:30 AM
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