It’s been a while since my last post. With holiday travel, cooking and cards, there just wasn’t time to paint. Now I’m back and determined to finish this painting so I can start on something new!
At this point, I am adding finishing touches all over the painting, so I need a little bit of each color.
Over break I got a big piece of glass to work on. The large work area is a real joy, especially at this stage in the painting where I need to hop from place to place, using miniscule amounts of all of the colors.
I think the reflections in the wine glasses turned out pretty well. I will probably knock the specular highlights down to a light gray and do a bit more work to adjust the shape of the base of the glass on the right.
Here’s the painting at the end of the evening. I’m not happy with the reflections on the carafe, so I will probably rework it tomorrow. Note that the lower left half of the painting below the diagonal seems wet, while the upper right half is dry. Before I applied any paint, I “oiled out” the areas where I planned to work by applying a thin coat of medium, in this case Neo Megilp. Oiling out gives a uniform working surface and assists in blending.