Painting the Negative Shapes

After painting the wet into wet green background and allowing it to dry throughly, I then select the areas where I can create a leaf effect by glazing in another wash of green with a negative shape. 

Was growing tired of painting greens, had to switch over to the orange poppy, I will return to the "Leafy Jungle" once I have finished the orange poppy.

FINDING THE DEPTH OF A BACKGROUND

Here I am painting negative shapes to create the illusion of  depth behind the leaves and stems. This is a wet into wet process, with the thought of negative shapes around the leaves and stems in the furthest background,  paint in the transparent yellow and then I drop in the mixture of burnt sienna, winsor green (bs) and winsor blue.  Yum! it is the best combination.   The background is fun to paint and I know it will be a great lesson, so in May I will be teaching this in a 3 day workshop.