Sharpened the edges of the dark ground against water and sky. Then adjusted/added colors of the bottom of sky and the bottom band of orange clouds. This part contains the highest dark&light contrast of this painting.

Still can't move away from adjusting shapes all over canvas

 

Still adjusting layers of cloud shapes all over canvas, which I'd like to move away without. But old habits die hard....hmmm.

New painting this year

 

I actually started painting this quite some time ago but haven't updated at the blog yet until today because not much progress I made so far. But now I'm losing my patience and started focusing on some focal points and trying to fix the shapes and put thicker paints on. It might not work and end up with going back to my old habit again, keep adjusting shapes all over the canvas until almost at the end.
But have to try to speed up the process.

Almost forgot. The title would be "Sunset at Port Orchard".

Didn't take long for the mountains

 

In other words, I would destroy them if I keep working on them. Then I would have to start over again. So I barely touched them other than just smearing lighter snow colors on top of darker layers. 

Work on the sky & cloud colors then come back some portions of rocks I want to refine further, then I'm done with this piece, finally. So this would be the final update for this painting.

Let's finish mountains next

Foregound and midground are almost done. I still want to come back and adjust some colors and put some highlights at some places but those can wait until finishing the mountains.

Foregound rocks are getting there

 Now foreground rocks are getting to what I want them to be. Will continue working on the right side a little more then move on to the middle ground.

Came back to rocks and pushing values darker

 I realized my last update was back in January. Since then, I kept coming back but soon stayed a way a while. But now I started putting more time on this so that I can get closer to the finish line soon.
Now I realize the forground rocks need to have more value contrast and overall values need to be much darker. Or at least that's what I wanted to do with this painting. So will work on this part a while this month.