Beech Roots Progress

I've done a little more work on this over the last few days.  I'm now bringing the shadow areas down in tone, and have started to add a few bark textures to the body of the tree.  I've inserted two close-ups to show you how loosely I've painted it so far. 

Beech Trunk detail

Some loosely applied brushwork in washes and glazes accumulates into an illusion of detail rather quickly. At this stage, I haven't mixed white into my colours.

Beech Roots Detail

Working in front of people, and standing up at the drawing board has helped me to keep this painting at arm's length, where I can always see the whole painting, stand back, squint a lot, and not become consumed by small areas of detail.  I'm at a critical stage now, where I need to concentrate on bringing the painting on as a whole to retain the overall balance of light, colour and just enough detail.

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