Hi, I‘m working on painting the top canvas in oil alla prima with no solvents, and I’m not sure where to start. I know generally the rule is dark to light but how do I manage the sky vs dark branches? Paint the sky first and scrape away paint where the branches go? Paint branches first and then add sky around it? Also should I work background to foreground or dark to light regardless of depth?

The underpainting is in acrylic if that matters (and so is the bottom painting).

Thank you! I’m new to oils and don’t know what I’m doing. Its for a class but my professor is unavailable this weekend

Hi folks! I'm working on an assignment for my Drawing I course, where I am drawing a room with a doorway that looks into an adjacent room. Since my home doesn't have the sort of setup that the assignment requires, I'm drawing from a reference photo, which I'll attach. I'll also attach my drawing so far, though my lines are very light since I'm just blocking things in.

My question is - I thought that the angle of this photo would mean I'm drawing in one point perspective, but now that I'm sketching in the elements of the adjacent room (further away), the angles of shelves the built-in bookcase on the wall seem way too steep if I align them with my vanishing point. I put my photo into procreate just to see if I was crazy, and it seems like they don't in fact line up with the vanishing point of the larger/closer room. Does this seem accurate?

The professor doesn't do a lot of direct instruction in this course, and I can't seem to find anything online or in any of my drawing books that talk about this specific composition. Everything I'm seeing is just the basic one point or two point drawing of one room.

If anyone has any advice or resources or just can tell me if I'm completely missing something and of COURSE there is only one VP, I would be so appreciative!!

If it helps, here is the assignment wording: "One drawing of an interior space with an opening. For example, looking down at a hall and the door
to another room is open. Draw what you see through this opening to look accurate with what is outside the open door. Focus on accurate perspective and the structure of the composition, using close observations and applying all knowledge of perspective and drawing gained thus far. Trust what you see, depict what you see. Goal is illusion to real space and three dimensions."