I’m still working on my room painting but am very pleased with how it is coming out. It’s based on a photo I took in Prince Edward Island at the Anne of Green Gables exhibit (presumably Matthew’s room).

I had to switch colours mid way through but perhaps that’s fine. I realized I needed to go very dark to being out the fact that I made parts of the painting already too dark.

I felt that because the first pass really bothered me with all the wrong colours, I should choose a trio that I knew worked. I figured it couldn’t look worse than it already did.

I didn’t have a good idea of what this would look like originally since the photo colours are totally different. The monochrome nature of this sort of works though. I like how the bed has two colour contrasts on the mantle. I also thought perhaps I needed smaller brushes and relied a lot on my flat 6 mm brush which I have tended to not use as often since it is the newest of all my watercolour brushes. My other brushes are too large for the painting which is 9×12 inches.

The painting now has this lovely warm glow which I wanted. It was meant to be peaceful although has a bit of a sinister edge to it. The composition was something that was very challenging as I had to move some things or alter them so they fit well in this painting. The painting in the top also was an element that was from another photo and I dropped it here. I realize it’s a bit of a “group of three” triangle composition which is why I liked the photo to begin with.

I am glad I stuck with this as it nearly ended up in the garbage as I was constantly annoyed with the first photo. Perhaps making art is also sticking through things even though it seems to be going wrong.