There's not much to say apart from that. I drew the picture and coloured it in with the three primaries. The rocks were looking a bit monotone in red and orange, so I dropped in some of the blue, which had a fantastic effect. To get lines and cracks in the sandstone, I brought in sepia and cadmium red from the opaques shelf so that I could apply them wet into wet without them spreading everywhere (that's what's great about opaques). I dabbed on the foliage with the blue and the orange plus some titanium white (which felt necessary), all using a Terry Harrison foliage brush. Finally, I added the two birds for a bit of interest. I painted them on first with a neutral mixed from my three primaries, then dropped in bits of red, blue and orange for variation.
And I do like what I've ended up with. The three primaries form a great power trio but it's that Winsor blue green shade that's the star both in the sky and on the sides of the rocks. On the rocks, my A level chemistry tells me it has the look of rusty copper or maybe copper carbonate, so maybe there's some copper in that pigment?
Anyway, decent job today. It's up for sale.
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