i m using yellow ochre and crescent green is a soft green color. separate this here. give it just a little distance. it doesn t take that long, other than that much time to get it going. but once you get in there, it s like the rest of these paintings, get the first stage of painting in, then you let it dry, then you repeat the process. and that s what it s about. well, the bird house the top part is about done. everybody kept saying where is the bird going to get in? so i decided i would go ahead and stop all the questions and add the international sym billion for a bird house. starving artists for real. yeah, believe me. no one is knocking my door down for work. average person here can t afford my services. i do the two things. i got a letter for two parts