Artist Reply: I have a problem developing with the trees and the houses. My colors except for a few touches of red, Naples yellow, and thalo green are lamp black, thioindigoid violet, and Prussian blue. My problem is, how do keep things limited to my black, blue, and violet pallet and keep my houses defined from the trees? The opening I see to accomplish that is to leave the paper untouched on the houses and place tree trunks around and in front of the houses until the very end of the painting, I will likely then come back and put a very light wash of Prussian blue over the white areas. I had to lift some color from the right hand side of the light house island. I will use that light a wash of lighter for the background washes.