Portrait of Max: background

I worked on the background. The wall behind Max is from a New Mexican Pueblo. It adobe and stucco. Rocks suspended in the adobe can be seen where the stucco has fallen away. I painted in the brightest colors that will appear in the rocks. I began to build in the color and values in the mortar and stucco. The next step will be to work on details in the rocks. The bright colors will be toned down and each rock will have veins, fissures, and texture. As with the figure these colors will show through successive layers.

There are different colors of mortar and stucco. Throughout the wall. It is not as uniform as it appears here. That will need to be adjusted. I will add color with glazes over the existing painting. The stucco is full of aggregate. I need to figure out how I will render the texture created by all the little bits of rock and sand.