I'm now going to continue blocking in this foreground area. As you can see, I'll be leaving areas of orange showing through. But now making a deeper purple here adding ultramarine blue and some crimson. As you can see, you don't need to over mix the color on your palette, leave some of it partially unmixed, because as you apply the color as you can see as you spread it out with a knife, that's all part of the quality and the character of the paint, just skimming over the surface here with the knife allowing some of that mixed color to show through as you can see, the Crimson is showing there and it really provides a great background underpainting for what is going to go on top. And as I work forward, I'm going to deepen the color, adding touch more ultramarine here to the mix, and possibly a little bit more crimson into that.
So coming deeper as well. Again, not over mixing But really producing some good rich darks for this foreground area. You can have a lot of fun using the knife, just allowing the character of the movement of the knife to come through the way the paint actually comes off and onto the canvas. As you can see here, I'm leaving some broken areas of that red showing through and a few scrape marks. Don't be afraid to just take the edge of the knife and scrape even some vertical and horizontal marks, it will all add character and you can allow areas like that to show through as you develop the painting. just continually adding character to your work.
Again, not over mixing, but producing some really good darks here now in the foreground. And I want to emphasize particularly in this area here, that a stronger dark just to add some real contrast. So really have some fun doing this whole process. And don't don't Keep continually working over it. And you can see here I'm allowing the knife just to scrape over the surface and it creates its own marks and its own character. You can see now how we have some real depth developing with the darks in the foreground, going into that middle distance and make sure that you stand well back and have a look at your painting you'll be able to see the whole picture and they will give you a real sense of the depth that you're able to create even at this early stage.
This is stage one now complete where we've tinted the canvas with outline this simple composition, we blocked in the darks and established some of these mid values as well. So now we can move on to stage two which is the sky