Day 5

Alright.. Spent an hour on the below painting, was hoping to do 2 but after how this one turned out, I was honestly too discouraged to try a second one.

I'm having a lot of trouble with my color picking for shadows.  I'm noticing this very quickly. I'm spending a lot of time studying the image, seeing why and how the color choices are happening.. as I try to mimic what's happening on the image it just turns into mush. The shading under the straw umbrella as well as the shadow on the sand of the umbrella itself - I think I spent 30 minutes on just redoing those 2 things over and over again.

How do you get a cool and warm shadow at once? The shadow of the umbrella on the sand is both cool with the warmth of the sand.. I'm squinting a lot, minimizing my image a lot to see it more clearly. Still stuck. I didn't even have enough time to do the Palm tree shadow on the left. boooooo.

Here's where I left with it:

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