Dark Alley

I must be feeling a bit better after my surgery last week since I pulled out the paints yesterday.  This is my last painting from the wetcanvas.com tutorial.  The tutorial ended before Christmas, but I've been a little slow getting to it.

When I white balanced the photo I increased the contrast a little bit as well.  It looks better.  My actual painting is a bit more washed out.  This isn't as colorful as some of the others I've done lately but it fits the mood.  I wanted to create a cool dark alley with warm light at the end.  The original photo had red flowers, which were very pretty, but I thought they would stick out too much since there isn't any red anywere else in the painting.  I wanted to keep it to the golden yellow and the blue-violet.  The green is actually a mix of the blue and yellow ochre I was using.  The blue is a mix of indigo, cobalt, and rose madder.  It was fun.  A different color scheme than I've used before.

p.s.  I'm feeling pretty well, still a little sore and oddly numb in a few spots.  I have my post op follow up appointment on Tuesday.  I'll probably find out the results of the lymph node pathology tests then.