Today I finished the land on the shoreline. The reflection in the water looks like it's real. I got in all the trees on the land too and they look pretty good. I have all of the foliage done and that was pretty hard to get it to look real but all I did was take a dark color and put it on one side of the brush and a lighter color on the other side. It makes the foliage look more realistic. It's so nice to be able to have a clue what I'm doing now.

I painted the grass and it was easier than I originally thought. It's just had to get the right color tone because at night everything is dark but it isn't all black so its hard to find an in between that looks real. The only colors that can be seen very clearly at night are white and what looks like black. so there can only be a little bit of color in whatever you are painting so that is doesn't look like it is day time.

My third painting is of a man standing on a path and looking at a shooting star. The only hard part of this painting is going to be a challenge is making the grass look real. It will be hard to do most of the background because its hard to paint things that have a light color at night. I know how I am going to paint everything else in this painting  but I have a hard time painting people even if it is only a silhouette. I just don't want this painting to turn out like my first painting.