So cool! I'm working on this challenge too. Your style definitely adds variety to the group of paintings entered so far.

Can't wait to see what you come up with! I saw you were thinking about entering. It is a fun image to work with. But I left out the lilly pads and was so tired after nearly 6 hours I decided to leave it out.

this is gorgeous!
I've been trying to comment all day but my colors was bugging.
i love the painterly style and fuller body! the mood in this piece is just great.

@mimo0 thank you. You have given people a fun project to try!

Watching your painting process is so fascinating, the beginning part especially looks like magic to me haha. t
This turned out incredible! I am loving how ambitious all the entries for this are, its pretty obvious people are having fun with it though!

@ponopzop I went back and re-watched it, and I think it confused even me in this case. I generally look to get a shape started to see where things will go. But in this case I started putting in the shadow and then changed my mind on what side the shadow would be on. This resulted in a bit of adjustment. I was using four different reference pictures with different lighting to give me ideas. In the end I figured out where I thought the hints of light were going in the original and went with that.
Folks can go to our realism thread in the wip-and-feedback section of the Colors discord to see what references I was using.
Here is the link from the news section for the colors server invite:
https://www.colorslive.com/discord

Amazing as always! :O