Continued with the leafage, grasses and poppy heads, and  painted fairly well to begin with but then ran into difficulties because I want to change the vibrancy of the green, but achieving the right green proved a bit of a nightmare.Decided to stick with the Ultramarine-Cadmium Yellow Medium mix for my greens.  Continued with the undergrowth.I am still having great difficulty with the foliage, however. Poppy leaves cannot be defined with ‘veins’ as with other leaves, so they tend to look rather bland.  They do seem to have a lighter rim, though—and whilst I have achieved this, they somehow look stylised. Painting is certainly a never ending voyage of discovery and often a steep learning curve!

This morning my first task was to try and correct the colour of the poppy leaves and in this, I was  largely successful. At any rate, the green is much more satisfactory and the painting is enhanced as a result. It just looks more convincing than before.The mix, incidentally, is Phthalo  Blue (Red shade), Cadmium Yellow Medium with a dab of white for the lighter colours.Had a good painting session and gradually improved the vegetation to my satisfaction not least by adding a few very fine lines and dots to give it texture and more definition. So finally, it is working well.