Hummingbird painting - Work in progress.

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Because we've all got colds at the moment, my Mum and step-dad didn't go out for a meal at the Dr Johnson pub. I didn't feel like putting all my painting equipment out on the dining room table, and then putting it away again to get it out again after dinner, so I decided to just paint in my bedroom instead. I've made enough room on my desk where I can paint, even though it is a bit cramped. So I started on the hummingbird painting. I painted the background in amethyst. I used neat amethyst at the top, then further down used amethyst mixed with white. I painted the edges too, as it was a box canvas, but I left the bottom until all the rest was dry because of ledging it on my desktop easel. I left that to dry and went and got myself some lunch. When I came back from lunch I started on the wings using white with a touch of pale purple in places. I used more purple on the smaller right hand wing. I went and googled how to mix burgundy for the body. So I mixed two parts red to one part blue and made a lovely shade of burgundy. I painted the body with that and then I painted some of the head black. While that was drying I went on to paint the stems in burnt sienna and then added burnt umber. I thought there'd be more of a light dark contrast between them, but there's not so much, so I think I might have to go back over part of it with yellow ochre for more of a contrast. The lighter stem was achieved by adding white to burnt sienna. Then I decided I was nearly finished for the day, so I just painted the bottom edge in with amethyst mixed with white, and turned the painting upside down for it to dry. As I'm still not feeling well enough to go down town shopping tomorrow, I'll probably do some more to it then. What have you lot been getting up to today? I hope you are all well. Have a great night.