Roof and Trees

    The roof is on - from the driveway looking up

and from the backyard.  Looking at these two photos like this, you can now more easily see the difference in the size of the two windows.

Also, the new, gas dryer came this afternoon.  Once the plumber can come back, he'll be able to hook it up while he's running the duct work for the new room.

Since most of my day has been trying to keep D from overexerting himself on the first day of a nasty-no-good-feverish-achey kind of cold and also in waiting for various people to do what they need to do, I didn't get either my painting materials or my quilting projects out to work on.  However, I will post the two autumn paintings. 

 

 I just realized that I switched the paintings to the opposite sides when I set them up for their "photo shoot" this week.  Sorry, but I know you can tell which is which.(The one on the left is the one on which I made the mistake of painting my darks first.) 

 

Yesterday I began to paint in the mid-range tones over the light washes of last week.  I've been trying to work always on the one on the left first and then the one on the right.  That way, if I'm not happy with the way things are going on the left, I can change it when working on the right.  In the same way, if I like what I'm doing on the first one, I try to keep it similar on the second one. 

 

The woods with the dark, dark color received more attention yesterday, and I'm beginning to think it's time to take off the masking fluid that has kept the tree trunks covered for me.  Some of the trees are birches, but some are not.  I want to work in the gray/browns of the darker tree trunks before adding the darker shadows in the depth of the woods. 

 

We'll see if I can get any painting done tomorrow.