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Worked on the landscape a little bit this morning.

This is my painting/fly tying room. I can switch from one to the other in a few minutes.

Darkened the background with a glaze of a brown and a blue. Looks like it could use another dark background glaze in a few days to darken it more and give it more depth. Not sure if I’ll repaint the glass before the next dark glaze and again after the next dark glaze or just once after the next dark glaze.

Two years ago I mixed the five oil colors I’m using with a medium and put them in little jars. The paint is now too tacky to easily use. I’ve ordered and am waiting on some mediums. I will mix the mediums into one medium and then mix with the five colors and put each in it’s own jar. I should be able to start painting again on Thursday.

Yesterday I did a little bit of work on my still life.

I’ve decided to make the background dark which may ruin the painting. I’ll try to cover it with a transparent brown and a somewhat transparent black. I don’t know how that will work out.

Worked on everything but the background for a few hours this morning. This should be finished in two to three weeks. A few weeks after that I will “oil up” this little painting which is just putting a few drops of linseed oil on a piece of cotton and rubbing the entire surface of the painting. The oil will help. A couple of months after that I will varnish the painting.

Started adding two more grapes. They didn’t look right. Worked on the glass and did a little work on the linen at the base of the glass. Put a bluish red glaze over some of the darks of the grapes. Did a little work to soften some edges. The pear needs quite a bit of work.

Worked on the apple, grapes, glass, and foreground linen. The glass looked kinda dirty and it has always looked like it was floating. I’m getting it dialed in. At least I think I am.

Did some work on the background and a little work on the pear. Need to apply a purplish glaze over the grapes, followed by grape highlights, spend a couple of sessions on the apple, pear, and glass, finish up the linen in the background and foreground in one or two sessions, and add any finishing touches. It won’t be long. Creating what is called a “lost edge” is a difficult thing to pull off. The left edge of the apple and pear are very sharp and look a little unnatural. It’s a difficult thing to barely soften edges so objects don’t look like they’ve been cut out and pasted onto the painting. I think I’ll be able to improve the edges.