Weekly Paint Progress 1/30

On to the dual projects.

I’m starting with the easy one:

and – not counting tracing – after 90 minutes I’m this far:

Here’s the tricky one:

… and that is a nightmare. It’s much larger, so tracing was not an option. I tried to do a value study and eventually wiped most of down with turpentine.

I’m really not sure how I’m going to make the yellow light seem translucent. Forget cast shadows, now I’m trying cast light. Doomed.