Saturday October 10. Painting from the poppy seed heads.

I found a canvas that I had primed with dark brown a few years ago. So I drew out with red pastel and painted quickly with thin acrylic white, using quite a large brush.

Having let the first stage dry, I worked through again using various thin colours as well as white.

A repeat of the last stage. The image is building in layers. Some thicker blue or brown is used to darken a few areas.

More of each stage. I think I want it to stay “rough” at the top and the bottom, more developed in the middle. More to be done.

I went back to the laptop to play with the original photo a bit more. The first one used the “watercolour” effect.

The next one used the device that selects edges only. I also turned the saturation of colour to maximum.

I went back to the photo and turned up the contrast and increased darkness. It reveals more detail of form.

I then made up a composite image of the last 3 images plus my own painting.

In the last one I cloned small parts of the altered photos onto the image of my own painting. This is something I've not done before. Feel quite excited!