Good Sleep, with Exhaustion

I slept better last night than I have in a few weeks, but I'm still exhausted this morning. It's going to be a good nap day. I took a 45 minute nap last Friday and I was able to bounce back. I'll do the same today. I am glad that the Pickleball tournament was cancelled for today at 2:30 at Quarterpath Rec Center. I would have sucked eggs... 🤣 So, with that being said: I can't paint this morning. I setup a new paint palette with fresh paints, and have everything ready to paint this afternoon after my nap. I'll be painting the railing of my backyard deck this afternoon also. My focus today is this section of the painting:

I will be working on the olive trees that I painted yesterday. I will be adding more of the "green" trees ontop of the Olive Trees. This illusion technique is the same as adding "Cloud Holes" to trees. It allows the artist to better define the edges of trees after they have done their initial painting. With the darker Sap Green colors I will create a better outline of the Olive trees. My trees are one-big-mass of "one" tree that is not true to what Van Gogh did. There are two or three unique Olive Trees in his painting. Mine looks like one-big-ass Olive tree! LOL! Duh'ster! I'll add the left distant hills to my painting, Yellow background, white-green bushes, then the real fun begins... I am going to do a toning of the canvas in yellows and yellow ocher tones of the entire wheat field. Greens will be mixed in to the yellows in certain sections. This will allow me to follow the "paint-by-numbers" marks that I created in the beginning. I need to follow those pencil lines with something, otherwise the painting will wander and not look correct. The biggest line that needs following is the line that divides the top of the grasses and the side sides of the stalks of grass. Then, after I tone the canvas I can start the fun process of adding butt-loads of grass marks that follows the lines that VG did. For me, the most enjoyable part of the painting. I love painting grass and have no idea why. See what I mean? I love painting grass:

I painted this back in 2018. If you click on the image and take a closer look at the blades of grass in the foreground,

you’ll notice a wide range of colors at play—so satisfying!

Also, check out the orange tree holes—it's a neat artist trick that adds depth and really makes a difference.