Having looked at works on line by Lucy Willis and Paul Riley one thing that struck me was the freshness of the colours, i.e., the colour mixtures don't look laboured if that makes sense. Also surprised by the contrasting styles of Paul Riley's work (marine vs. still life paintings), personally I like areas of detail in in the still life painting, these areas are either subtle linear marks that help define the subject or more detailed marks limited to help emphasis the area of focus.
In my painting I have tried to be mindful of this freshness trying to avoid reworking areas even if I am not entirely happy with the colour. I didn't put an initial wash across the paper but placed in fragmented areas of washes that that I added to, to define details and tonal contrast in some areas of foliage.
Three further studies focusing on greens. In all these paintings I am adding touch of quinacridone gold to some of the green mixtures, helping to the greens to look like they haven't just come directly from a single tube.
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