Here you can see I have begun painting in the details on the turkeys. I also did some more work on the foliage in the trees, pushed the cliffs back a bit and made the trees in the foreground stand out more.

 I worked on the water a bit and then got to thinking of a good place to put a cardinal so I decided to bring in an old fence and have my cardinal sitting on that. Will not be long before I am on my way to the next panel.

Here is a closeup of the cardinal and fence, will be adding details to the cardinal and then will finish up the turkeys.

 In this section, I was working on the closer tree line. and defining where I wanted the rocks to be.

 In this photo you can see that I have been working on the foliage for the three trees in the foreground.

In this photo, I have been working on the rocks and starting to add in the creek along with the fence line that you can barley see because of the glare from the light from my window. I am also going to work on the foliage in the trees a little more and take them on up and off the panel. At this point I am pretty happy with the fall colors.. Next I will be painting the turkeys and then on to panel two....   :)

 Here I have decided to use a palette knife to rough in the cliff side, I was told that I was too in love with the drawing and that I was not making the cliff continuous, after looking at it a few minutes I realized that my critic was correct. Sometimes I get tunnel vision when I am working on something and it is really helpful to have another set of eyes.

In this one I have developed the cliff a bit more and I am beginning to be very pleased with it. Spent some time getting some fall foliage painted in, I am liking the results so far.

 

I am beginning a new project, this will be a 5'x 16' mural for the Menifee County Library in Frenchburg, Kentucky. I set up a make shift easel on a wall in my dinning room, "I did tell you I would take over the house with my painting honey  :) " Here you see the first two panels primed with the sky painted in.

Here is the initial sketch for the first panel.  There is a story about the turkey featured in the Mural, this turkey was injured and ended up having one of her legs wither away, this turkey can still be seen around town hopping around on one leg. I hear she is doing well and will be seen for years to come.. I will be doing these basic sketches showing what I want to include but I am sure more elements and details will make their way into the painting as I go along. "they always do"

Me putting in some dark's and defining where I want to put the trees.