STAGE FIVE

I continued to add more detail, making sure to leave a selection of the remaining whites for highlights. Several of these were painted with very soft tones of ochres and greens. I used loose, broken marks in a mix of cobalt blue and ultramarine for the brighter man-made structures, then flooded large areas of the sketch with a thin mix of yellow ochre and cadmium yellow to produce a warm sunlit glow over the entire scene. The allium buds were painted in more detail to bring them into the foreground. This idea was reinforced by creating a strong shadow to produce a three-dimensional effect that elevates the buds from the surrounding marks