Here is the latest piece colored in with the pastels and lightly sprayed to help pop the colors. I am thinking I may darken the trees a bit more and play with the shadowing somewhat yet. There were actually no trees on the original photo, but I decided that I would add some to soften it. Old downtowns should have streetside trees anyway, don’t you think?
This is also blackberry season. As you can tell, I have been spending several mornings a week out in the blackberry patches. Surprisingly, the berries are not quite a good as during last year’s drought. I think it has been too cool and wet to have a bumper crop. I did manage to find this year’s location with larger berries, but none of them are quite as tasty as in 2012.