The small branches in front of the Robin and the seeds in the first painting were distracting, and the colors were not bright enough in some areas of the painting. Also the nest seemed to sit on top of the branch, instead of behind it. I quickly decided to do a second painting removing the seeds, some of the branches and making the nest shorter. To brighten the colors I decided to use the method I learned from Margaret Walsh Best. I painted the Robin, nest and a few branches first, masked them.
The wet-on-wet background was added in two layers, the first was Phthalocyanine Blue and Lemon Yellow and the second was Quinacridone Rose and Cadmium Yellow. Finally I added a few leaf shapes. When I removed the masking from the Robin and nest it removed some of the paint and raised the paper. When I added paint back the paper quickly absorbed it making it difficult to control how the paint spread.
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