Work in Progress Oil on MDF board

I have began work on a large scale, using the photograph selected in the previous post.
Working on this size was initially daunting but also exciting, so I was looking forward to beginning work.

I began with a base layer of terre verte, vermillion
and yellow ochre. I poured used turps directly onto
the board to help spread the colour across the large
surface area. Also, I wanted to use a muddy turps
as I felt it would help create the neutral effect
I was looking for. 

I then drew on the outline of the trees using a
thinner brush coated in yellow ochre.

I then built up the shape and structure of the
bin bag wrapped around the tree using burnt
umber.

I began to build up blocks of colour. 

The tree trunks eventually got more depth.
(using the same palette of colour as the previous
paintings.)

In working on the plastic bin bag, I used a mix of
ultramarine and burnt umber to create a black. I
wanted an even darker colour to that I could create
the creases in the plastic. I used a true mars black
in order to do this as the mix was more blue.
I feel this worked well.

I began building on the tape wrapped around
this plastic, using white to scraping in with
a palette knife.

It proved a challenge to try and create the
texture of two different plastics against the trees
but I tried my hardest to recreate it (using a number
of reference images.)

This is as far as I got in the 6 hours I was painting
for.

I feel that the painting is going well, although I would like to add more detail where possible in the time I have left, just to complete it and help create more shape and depth. I also need to complete work on a background as the base layer is not all I want to sit behind the focus point.