Two landscapes

This is a familiar view, based on a watercolour sketch. There is to be a large diagonal shadow spreading across the field upwards from the right.

This painting is based on a photo I took during a walk recently over near Hungerford. It is almost abstract in the stark quality of the shapes.

Lots to do here.

Is this the final version? Who knows?

Now, what do we think?

The face shape was not right: too narrow, so I moved the ear further to the right and expanded the jaw line . This caused colour matching problems with the cheek , which has to be rectified but I am happier now with the face shape.

Stages in an oil painting - 6. The final cut.

Can you see these anaemic lemons?

I have spent a lot of time trying to make them look convincing, adding paint, wiping it off again, adding more paint and the picture below shows how I finally left them: still, perhaps, not dark enough in the shadow areas....

The apple in this final version, I can see now, is less apple-like than before. It has lost its dark red apply hue and turned amber. Ah well.

The ladle is ok.... but that apple....