Not a lot of progress, as I have been busy entertaining client guests, but enough to begin to show the balance of flower areas in the composition.
I shall include the flowers that are in shadow first and the sun lit ones after. The flowers in shadow will have a darker, but more intense colour saturation and the others will show some sun bleaching of the colour. In this way it should enhance the lit quality of the work.
The composition is also beginning to indicate the 'triangle' impression that I like to use, which gives it 'stability'.

The leaves in this painting are mostly dark and silhouetted against a light background. The background areas will be quite small so that they do not compete with the flowers which will be in sunlight dimensionally in front of the leaves.
I chose to do this so that the cup and saucer will not be too camouflaged against the 'busy' background. I want to emphasise the dimension so that the cup will also have the effect of being in amongst the foliage, and not just 'floating' in front or superimposed on top. We shall see when it is complete if I have been successful or not!

The composition has been outlined and I have begun to add the darkest areas. These areas are the leaves that will be silhouetted against a lighter background.
I fluctuate when painting between starting with the darkest areas or finishing with them!
I finally decided to add the cup to the bottom left as opposed to being in the centre as with the first of the series, 'Tea Garden'.