Preparing the canvas and blocking in the wood table base; defining the wine glass.
Outlining crystal glass; highlighting grapes; sketching in roses.
Highlighting roses and under-painting grape leaves; additional highlights to the wine glass and wood table.
Final highlights and shadows; adding wood grain to the wooden table top; fallen rose petals.
A rough sketch of the basic land masses; under-painting a late evening sunset; leveling the horizon line; blocking in water along the horizon.
Highlighting open ocean along the horizon line; adding sunlight highlights on the water; blocking in tall grass; highlighting sand.
Sketching in a broken-down dune fence; blocking in the fence pickets; painting in support posts and additional brush and grasses.
Adding final highlights to the fence, grass, water and sand dunes; sketching in figure; adding tall grass and seagulls.
Sketching the adobe building; under-painting the sunrise sky; blocking in distant hills and trees; under-painting snow.
Blocking in the adobe building to create a three-dimensional form; painting in all the distant dead trees; blocking in doors and windows.
Underpainting the snow on the roof, the walls and snowdrifts against the building; under-painting the adobe oven; adding the first layer of highlights of the snow.
Adding final details on building and surrounding areas like grasses, bushes and weeds; adding accent highlights.
Color-mixing process for basic to advanced mixtures; mixing highlight colors for accenting objects.