Pumpkin Amiss: the March 25th update on Still Life #3

The great pumpkin in my still life set up is history. Caput. It began to cave in on itself from the top so it had to go. May it rest in peace, along with Apple substitute #3. Unfortunately, now is not the season of pumpkins so it's been replaced with a brick to keep the basket up right (as you'll see from the second photo below). The interior of the basket no longer reflects the deep orange so when I was painting the interior weaving with a brown/pale yellow mixture, I added some orange as well.

Post-pumpkin, not everything is in the same place as it once was. The pine cones have fallen off the ledge more than once. The basket itself is not on precisely the same angle it was: I now see less on the left side than I used to. I'm also getting confused about the shape at the top of the basket, so I'm planning to correct that tonight by angling it in more sharply as it reaches the top of the panel and make it disappear into the darkness. For the weaving itself, I'm just trying to capture a sense of what it would be if it were my main focus, and then I'll blur the details so they don't take away from the painting's centre.