Day 60: Continuing my urban painting practice. So much fun! I would love for you to share your favorite urban paintings in the comments!
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Goals with this practice:
1. Paint more traditionally without layers only changing color (hue/saturation/value), brush size and opacity.
2. Do urban painting of some kind (and I love the Japanese theme).

Yesterday I used a painting by @Munin as reference: https://www.colorslive.com/details/1864587 Today I use a photo I took about 4 years ago in Fukuoka as reference. It is a much harder task but a good practice. (thanks @tall73 for the suggestion). I have uploaded the reference picture in the #give-n-get-feedback channel on our Discord server. Head over there if you want to see it: colorslive.com/discord (I like it a lot)

About half way through an artist friend of mine came in the room and gave me the following piece of advice. That is why I suddenly shifted strategy mid-painting :P
1. Start with getting the biggest shapes and perspective lines right.
2. Give all the shapes a flat color so that the values become correct relative to each other.
3. Carefully go into smaller and smaller detail and always remember step 1 and 2 not to mess them up.
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What are your thoughts on this WIP and how should I proceed tomorrow?