Session 2
This is actually the culmination of a few days worth of work. I spent some time working on the background mountains and the intermediate landscape. I will be going back in with some light glazes to tone them down a bit, but sometimes it is easier to define light and shadow when the colors are just a little more intense.

I then went into the areas I left “cut out” in the last sitting and laid in the blades of the old mill. I used a fairly wide variety of colors to represent the old wood and some rust, but also some touches of color just to add interest and a place for the eye to rest. The next day I went back with a palette knife and added more details to define the wood grain and the splintered edges. A few more touches of diluted Indian Red add some areas of rust.

The next step was to define the hues I will use for the stones on the tower. For the most part, this is just to define the curve necessary to show dimension and to play with the grays created by mixing complimentary colors. I will “play outside of the lines” a bit when I go back in to detail the stonework.