The completed painting. Though not everyone likes the amount of detail that I put in my work, I am personally content with this painting in that it has the 'feel' of the rainforest that I was aiming for.
Next I shall continue to prepare for my oil still life and the next painting in my 'Tea Garden' series of watercolours.

The right hand side of the composition is now taking shape and will add more dimension to the work, I think.
I have also added a soft shadow to the base of the tree on the left foreground as I wanted to enhance the direction of the main light source.
I am contemplating adding a few large dark leaves at the extreme top left to 'throw back' the background even further. This is by no means a final decision, as I will decide right at the end if it will enhance the painting.

  Most of the right hand side of the painting will be dark, as the rainforest is more dense there, but I shall superimpose some very dark, larger leaves, over the top on the right hand side to 'throw back' the path section that is furthest away. The darker distance leaves will also be given a deeper perspective when this is done.

This photo does not show the edges of the painting as I didn't want to show the distortions due to the curve of the paper.
My method, when using Arches 640gsm paper, is to do the painting without first wetting the paper. This results in the effect that, whilst I work, the area that I am painting on shrinks a little, and the outside area does not. Once I have completed the work, I wet the reverse side of the paper with demineralised water, which causes an even shrinkage over the entire piece correcting the curves in the paper.
I have worked in this session just in the upper middle of the work.

The forest is still growing denser. Much work still to do.

The painting is beginning to get the denseness of the rainforest, but it will need more contrast in some areas yet, before I am satisfied.
I am disappointed with the lighter palm leaves that are intermingled with the ficus leaves, as they do not have the lit quality that I had intended.
I suppose  there will always be some aspects of my work that will not completely satisfy me. Such is the life of an artist who sees 'too much' detail!!

A distance is now beginning to be more enhanced on the pathway. More leaf texture has been added to the left section. This will be a lighter area with the thin saplings dark against the more sunlit background.
A rainforest is more like an 'enchanted wood' to me and this is the feel that I want to ultimately convey.
As I am painting on a dull rainy day, I have the LED lights on, and this gives the photo a more 'yellow' tone than the last one which was taken in a brighter daylight, which has a blue bias.