Umami got some more painting done yesterday . . . essentially, bled some diluted titanium white (a "neutral white") and parchment (a "cool" white) to try to define the verticals, then worked the spaces with the blue tinged "dirty water" from two days ago (basically, the water used to clean the brushes; it has all the remnant paint in solution). Interestingly, what happened was that the whites tended to settle in the lowest parts, revealing the brushstrokes from the underlying painting in darker blue. There's some interesting things going on with the surface now, but it might be too subtle to pick up from a distance. Still nothing that says "mango" yet either. Considering dumping the old plan and treating this is an extreme close up of a mango surface, i.e., introducing, reds, oranges, yellows, purples into this. Probably won't, but still playing with the idea.
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