Well, I dug “old Woodie” out of the bin and decided to take the painting another day toward a finished work. At this rate, I should finish about this time next year. What my attempt today was to get the bottoms of the two pumps painted, and to do so, control the chroma in a way it doesn’t totally dominate the rest of the painting.

I toned it in a manner that I think will work. I used a mixture of cadmium red medium, red oxide, yellow oxide and various mixtures of white and about 50% mixture of matte medium. It seems all right for the moment, we’ll see if “old Woodie” ( the car) will balance it. We’ll see…..

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