Thank you, Peggy, for taking the time to look at this. I do tend to like casual poses even when I have worked from life. I tend to do more "figurative" works, especially when I am practicing, since my "life" skills have been a challenge. I liked your music analogy, my struggles put me at "Hey, Hey We're the Monkees . . ." which means I should be practicing the real thing (did they really play their instruments?).
When you talk about neutralizing with the complementary color, this may sound like such a stupid question, but does it mean to mix that color with the other, paint over like a glaze or something else? I am so new to oils, now I am not sure what the proper technique is.
I am in the process of watching your videos. I keep rewinding them since I always feel I miss something, so I was hoping you would check back here and I could ask quickly, what do you think is the best way to watch them? With a cup of coffee and note pad, drawing along, or watch, stop, try, go back?
With this stage of the painting you do not see the garden with gazebo and rose bushes off in the background using the same color scheme but not as intense. I