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I finally finished a painting I sketched and mapped out a couple of weeks ago.  I was excited to get started on it, however, life got in the way.  We had company from out of town (much welcomed company I might add) and then I caught a bug that was going around.  I was finally able to work a few days ago to put in the dark sections and then worked on it yesterday and finished it today.

Working on the Shattered Reality paintings is quite fun for me.  I make preliminary plans for what I would like to use for colors but I never know for sure what colors I will use until the painting starts taking shape (this process was explained in a previous blog.  For this painting I wanted to tone down the colors a bit and not make it as bright I sometimes paint them.  I grayed the colors of the floats quite a bit, however I painted the colorful parts of the shells without graying them.

This painting, Shattered Reality XLV,  was created from reference photos I took at a sea museum in Port Gamble, Washington.