Painting project - work in progress.

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Today I started a new painting project. I drew the outline of this earlier in the week ready. It consists of a jug that is being used as a vase on the right, a bowl of strawberries in the middle, and a cake stand with cakes and a glass of milk on the left. There is also a serviette with a spoon on it at the bottom right. The first thing I did when I came to paint it was painted in the window in the background with white with a little touch of black in it. When it was dry I then did the window frames. I wanted to use Cobalt blue but I didn't have any. I looked in all my paint sets and not one of them had Cobalt blue. So I had to use cerulean blue instead. Then I did the tablecloth. I wet the whole area of the tablecloth first then added white and some violet in places. Then over on the right I added some cerulean blue aswell. When that was dry I added in the shadows. I painted the jug that's being used as a vase using white with a bit more black than I used for the windows to paint the handle. Then I painted the main part of it white. When that was dry I painted in the pink flower pattern. Then I painted the dish that the strawberries are in using various tones of the same colour. I took a break to get my dinner, which was sea bass with some leek and a couple of slices of lemon. I used some of the frozen leek that I got from the big Tesco the previous day. Then after EastEnders I went back to carry on with my painting. I did the darkest green leaves first in the flower arrangement. I used Viridian but after I'd done it I thought maybe I should have used Sap green. I used sap green for the leaf tops of the strawberries. I googled what shade of red strawberries are and the answer came back as Ruby red. I don't have a ruby red in my acrylic paints, so I went and ordered some off Amazon. I also ordered a set of acrylic paints at the same time which include Cobalt blue and raw sienna and another colour I wanted which I can't even remember now! I painted in the pink flowers adjusting the shade of the pink by adding white. Then I painted the tops of the cakes in the same colour. I added some grey to the sides of the cake stand to resemble shine as it's meant to be a transparent cake stand, but I don't know if it's worked very well. Then I did the lighter green in the leaves of the flowers. I used sap green and lemon yellow for the very light areas and then I added some yellow ochre to sap green to make a kind of olive colour for other parts. Then I decided to leave it there for now. I've got to wait for the ruby red paint to come before I can do the strawberries anyway. I'll continue it next week. I hope you are all well. I hope you have had a lovely day. Have a great night.