tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32477371090126683072024-03-13T09:32:14.423-07:00Watercolors by BarbI'm here to help you paint, sell my work or just talk watercolor!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-8156345687046508002019-03-01T12:36:00.001-08:002019-03-01T12:36:23.710-08:00New Start!<div style="text-align: justify;">
Wow it's been a long time since I've blogged!!! My life has been unbelievably busy and I don't like that! Well, I guess moving to a new area is a good excuse, but still!!</div>
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My new studio is all set up</div>
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Right now I am working on a painting of boats...it's not quite finished yet, but I am hoping to add it to the library gallery show. Gotta have SOME new things!!</div>
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I might be changing my blog site but I will advise everyone of that. It's connected to my website so it might be beneficial for me to do that. Still thinking about that.</div>
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Well, I hope this is the first of many more blogs! I am trying to figure out YouTube and interested in doing some video tutorials. Gotta get a camera! Ugh.....Everything is so difficult and technical....but that's life these days! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-59782368387045987922017-12-07T09:22:00.000-08:002017-12-07T09:22:07.619-08:00NEW STROKESA new chapter is always exciting when reading a book.....and so in life a new chapter can be just as exciting or even better. I have always wanted to be a teacher. As a child I would play teacher in the basement and have a whole class set up with a big blackboard that I had asked for as a Christmas present one year. It was my best time! It was my little girl cave. But I coupled that love with art. I vividly remember in one of my elementary classes there was a certain pen that one of my teachers used, and I searched unceasingly in the stores for the same one so I could mark up my play papers in my made up classroom. I could never find that pen, but I loved the certain way it put the ink down and marked the paper. It was a constant search for me. The same went with the art that I loved as a child and as I grew up. I loved and still love the way certain brushes create their mark on the paper or canvas.....it's what drew me and continues to draw me to it......the quick strokes that remained untouched after being carefully or randomly applied. So, I felt teaching and art went so well together for me and it always will, but I needed to move on from teaching for a while. I need to branch out and find a new way to stroke the paper without needing to always find projects to teach that could keep me from experimenting and doing things without having an order in which to teach it. I found that when I had to document and write down every aspect of how to do a painting in order to teach it, it became too stuck in the same mode. I will still love to go back to teaching, but with a freedom that doesn't require me to remember what color I used here or there, because really, painting isn't and shouldn't be that ordered....at least for me. I like to mush color around on my palette to make a new color I would never have thought of using, and not knowing what I might come up with is part of the fun. I loved teaching, but the fun wasn't there anymore. The best part is the relationships I've had over the years with my students. Seeing the joy in creating something they didn't think they could do was better than any stroke of my brush! Seeing a valueless painting turn into one with depth and atmospheric perspective is exciting! Some never knew what values were.....but when they were shown, it was like a light bulb going on and it couldn't be turned off! It's great, and I so enjoyed opening new doors for people and their painting abilities! I hope they take that and run with it, just like I want to run through the new door God will be opening for me. Who knows, but I believe we shouldn't remain stagnant....always learning, always growing, always serving.....it's good for you. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-26976424729315890042017-11-12T18:47:00.000-08:002017-11-12T18:47:00.555-08:00HOUSE BOAT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I took this photo near Greenbury Point in one of the coves down there and found this adorable house boat which was hand built. The colors of the boat, the flowers, the water and the flag all attracted me to want to paint this.<br />
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Make sure you have your colors mixed before you wet the paper. I wet the whole background except for the mast, the flag and the boat. I wet the bottom of the boat. Then made 2 mixes of thalo blue and ultramarine blue. One with more water and one with less water (stronger). Then I made a mix of an olive green color for the upper part of the water with ultramarine blue and yellow ochre (M. Graham brand). Then with the lighter mix of blue I painted the sky down to the horizon line and then started with the olive green and then worked down with the stronger blue, through the bottom of the boat. When it was slightly drying, I pulled off the paint in a downward stroke with a flat brush from the bottom part of the boat. Make sure you start out with a wet brush that you take the excess water off with a paper towel so it's dry and then pull it down on the paper. Keep wiping off the excess water from the brush. I also pulled off some paint with a sideward motion to make horizontal light in the water under the boat. Next when all that dries, I painted the bottom of the boat with a mix of ultramarine turquoise and quinacridone violet (both Daniel Smith). Then, taking the same blue I used for the sky, I painted the shadowed areas of the boat. You can see there are only a few areas I left white. Make sure the rim of the boat stays white.<br />
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After all that dries I started the trees in the background. I did this wet on dry. The colors I used were: sap green (M. Graham), yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, quinacridone violet and winsor red. I made 3 values of color. I mixed yellow ochre with sap green to make a light green, I used just sap green alone, then I mixed a darker value with sap green, ultramarine and a little winsor red. Now I have 3 values....a light, mid tone and dark. I started painting in the upper left corner with the lighter green. Into many of these greens I dropped in other colors like yellow ochre, quinacridone violet or a little winsor red wherever I saw those colors in the photo. Be careful to leave some of the sky holes so the blue sky shows through. Also I added tree trunks and some branches while wet. Don't worry if it bleeds into the greens...that's a good think. Not all the trunks should be hard edged. I used ultramarine blue and burnt sienna with some quinacridone violet for the trunks. I moved in sections at a time, putting all the colors of values in the first section (about a 4" section starting on the left) and moving to the right. Don't add too many dark values yet, but I did put in some as I moved to the right side. I avoided painting the grasses behind the boat. Then I painted the windows of the boat. I used the same dark as the bottom of the boat for the 2 right windows. I added a darker shadow at the top. The two very far left windows I painted with the olive green from the water behind it. The third window I painted yellow ochre with some raw sienna in it and I dropped some burnt sienna onto the top with a touch of ultramarine blue in it to darken it a bit. If you look at the photo, it is darker at the top.<br />
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Next I painted a yellow glaze over the body of the boat with a light wash of yellow ochre. I also dropped in a bit of quinacridone rose to parts of it. I painted it over some of the door moldings and over the window moldings with the yellow ochre. I gave the outer rim of the boat a little bit of it in some parts....not everywhere. I gave the left end of the boat a light glaze of it but very light.<br />
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I waited for all that to dry before I added more of the details on the boat. Next move on to the water. I started under the boat by adding the shadows the same color as the bottom part of the boat. Then I dropped in a bit of olive green to it where I saw the color changing. As you move out to the left the shadow color gets more olive green. I added touches of thalo blue to it. Also added quinacridone violet where I saw it. Squiggle the brush around to create these shadows in the water, don't try to be too careful! The looser the better and try to use a good amount of water!<br />
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Painting the back part of the water, I glazed over it with some thalo blue and dropping in more of the olive green. Also dropped in quinacridone violet. After it's dry you can pull out some of the highlights/reflections from the grasses and pilings with a semi wet brush. After that I glazed over the back grasses with a thin yellow ochre. When that dried I masked out the tops of the grasses just dabbing randomly. When the background is dry now add the darker darks. You can put those in and then soften some areas so not all edges are hard. I also dropped some other colors into those darks. When painting the grasses/dead branches on the right I did some negative painting loosely. When that is dry I added the darks to those grasses and added some olive green into it also. The dark I used was the same I used on the tree trunks.<br />
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Getting back to the details on the boat, I added some yellow ochre and raw sienna on the wood trim. I added a bright yellow highlight on some areas along the edge near the long windows. I used yellow ochre with a touch of a brighter yellow. I painted the flowers with quinacridone violet for the ones on the left but wet them first and kept the very tops unpainted to show a highlight. I used the dark from the tree trunks with a little ultramarine blue in it to add the shadow underneath the pink flowers. When that dried I did the more golden flowers. I used quinacridone gold with some perinone orange in it. I used burnt sienna for the shadow areas. When that dried I did the container using burnt sienna with some ultramarine blue in it and a touch of winsor red. <br />
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There are dark stripes at the top of the bottom of the boat and at the base. I used a darker version of the boat color.<br />
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I painted the flag using just ultramarine for the blue area and winsor red for the stripes. Later I used a razor blade to pick out a few of the stars.<br />
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I also used a razor blade to put in the lines coming from the mast, scraping them carefully and not too hard. I also scraped out the little canopy and the line coming from the buoy. I painted the buoy with a black paint. <br />
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I am working on a crab painting and decided to do it like an illustration. It's a fun way to display an object you like and put words and descriptions to it. Later I plan on making a copy of it and mounting it to a wooden board. They make great gifts inexpensively.</div>
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To start this painting I used 3 main colors for the background. Yellow ochre and ultramarine blue mixed with some thalo blue. I wet the whole paper first and then just added those colors where I felt I wanted to and gave it some balance. Later while slightly wet I spattered with some sap green and some of the blue I used. To give it more texture I spattered with just water when the paper began to dry a little bit. </div>
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After that all dried, and you can see the spattered water better on this next photo, I started working on the lettering. I decided I wanted it multicolored and I used winsor red, thalo blue mixed with ultramarine, yellow ochre (M. Graham brand - it's lighter and less opaque than the Winsor Newton brand) and some sap green. I decided to do the letters "Blue Crab" in blues and green...(thalo mixed with ultramarine and dropping in yellow ochre to get a green)<br />
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Painting the crab I started with the main big shell. I started by painting the top with raw sienna halfway down and then stopping and adding an olive green color that I created combining ultramarine blue + raw sienna. I also added some watery ultramarine blue toward the eyes where it gets a little bluer and lighter in value. Using perinone orange (Daniel Smith) I added that on edges and on those end points that I call jewelry! The backfin I painted by laying down raw sienna first and then painting over it while wet with thalo blue. While almost dry I outlined the edges in perinone orange. The claws will be done in the same way using the same colors. I will use more straight out thalo blue for most of the claws.<br />
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Finished crab painting. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-78558152933942599982017-05-31T19:08:00.001-07:002017-06-08T19:31:50.004-07:00BOYS WADING - A Winslow Homer Study and Reproduction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We as a class are looking at the work of Winslow Homer, and we decided to try reproducing this painting done with watercolor and gouache. It's interesting to try and study master's works and figure out color and technique. We didn't have the very rough paper he worked on nor do I have or use the colors he probably used, but we are trying it out the best we can and making up colors as we go along.<br />
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By analyzing the background and sky, I decided that Homer must have painted everything in the blue background first, all the way through down to the water and stopping at the sand, leaving the boys and part of their reflection the white of the paper. Any other white in the painting was done with gouache. Many students in my class went on a field trip to the National Gallery and saw this up front and close without any glass! They sent me photos they took of this painting but with transferring it through the internet and the color differences in computer screens, it certainly changed the colors which in the beginning looked more grayed down. The more teal colors did not seem to be there, but some of it was incorporated into our painting because many not only didn't remember certain colors in this particular painting, they didn't know we were going to paint this so they weren't really looking at the boat in the background for instance. It might have had some teal in it and I chose to do it that way because it offset the blue of the boathouses behind it nicely. <br />
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So, I started the background blue with ultramarine + ultramarine blue (Daniel Smith) + burnt sienna. Keeping it on the blue side, not green. For the sand I used raw sienna + winsor red and added a little burnt sienna. I painted the boys' skin but keeping in mind later I would put some shading in them. I used the color of the sand for their legs but for the face I used raw sienna + quinacridone rose.<br />
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The background boathouses were painted roughly using ultramarine + thalo + burnt sienna and deciding we should add some titanium white to the mix because it looks like the colors were more opaque and also more atmospheric, helping to push them in the background more. I dropped in some burnt sienna also roughly. Both blue boathouses were done in the same way. Then the other brown boathouse I used quinacridone burnt scarlet (Daniel Smith) + ultramarine + burnt sienna. I used that same color but added raw sienna to paint the pylons. I then painted the boat. I used the same colors as the sky and water but I used more ultramarine turquoise in it and added a little white to give it a more opaque look. I did not paint the stripe on the side so the color would stand out more. </div>
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I painted the bulkhead on both sides of the boat. Homer probably used burnt umber, but I don't use that color so I made it using ultramarine blue + burnt sienna + neutral tint. <br />
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Starting on the boys I put the blue on the shirt on the boy on the right with ultramarine + thalo blue + titanium or Chinese white. Adding the white adds the opaqueness that I feel was done by Homer. His shorts I used neutral tint + white + burnt sienna plus a little quinacridone gold. The white on his shorts I did later with some white gouache, which wouldn't be how I would normally paint it. Homer used gouache frequently in his earlier paintings. For his red hat I used winsor red + gamboge then used a dark for the rim with burnt sienna + ultramarine blue. I used this dark also for the shadows in his shirt and pants.<br />
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To start the boy on the left I used raw sienna to map out the underlying highlights. For the deeper shadows, I used the same colors I used for the bulkhead but added some other colors. I used black + white + quinacridone burnt scarlet + quinacridone gold. It seems like a lot of colors, but it seemed to get the color I was looking for......I'm sure there was an easier way, oh well! The dark apron, I just used the bulkhead color. I also used the bulkhead color but more diluted for the shadow side of his hat. (If you don't want to mix all these, I also experimented with just black + burnt sienna + white and that seemed to work).<br />
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I started to paint the water in the background near the boats. I used ultramarine turquoise + ultramarine blue + burnt sienna + white. Dont used too much burnt sienna. I used this color to paint the center of the water under the big boat. As you go to the right use more burnt sienna and as you go to the left add some thalo blue. The water is pretty hard to describe. I used a lot of the colors I already used in the painting and maybe adding raw sienna or sap green to add the different colors affected by the sand and the sky.<br />
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Use white gouache to make the foam of the waves and the sail in the background. The rocks in the front I used burnt sienna + ultramarine....nothing too detailed as you can see. The lighter side of object I believe Homer just added white.<br />
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Here is the finished painting, although I would probably darken the boy's shorts on the right and a few other things. We ended up taking sandpaper and sanding some of the buildings in the background. It just slightly lightens it up and pushing them back a bit. Hope you had fun doing a Winslow Homer!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-41487135825543822942017-05-24T19:44:00.005-07:002017-06-08T19:28:00.278-07:00Sunny Side Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Eggs in the sun! This is the photo I took ⇧..... A fun project but challenging. Thought we would paint these in the beginner class....not sure they like me!<br />
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We started painting one of the whole eggs, but first masked out the highlight on it. Wet on dry, I used raw sienna + quinacridone rose and added winsor yellow to the sunlit side of the egg, adding a band of violet as I worked down the egg with ultramarine + quinacridone rose. Using the same initial colors but just adding more rose, I painted the bottom of the egg. After the egg dried I painted the harder line shadow on the the left side with a darker violet of ultramarine blue + winsor red.<br />
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I approached the other eggs in the same way and using the darker violet to get the deeper shadows.<br />
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Next I started painting the interior of the bowl. I made a base color of the green bowl mixing Thalo Green (Daniel Smith) and Winsor Red. To this base color I made a sunlit side by adding Winsor Yellow to it which I painted to the left of the eggs in the bowl. At the same time I mixed the red clay color along the rim with Winsor Red + Thalo Green, and while the yellowish green color was still wet, I added the red to the rim. I added a little Quinacridone Rose to middle area of the rim and then I continued with the rest of the rim to the right with the base color of the green. When this dried, I painted the shadowed part of the interior of the bowl to the right of the eggs, covering the deep shadow part of the egg. I used the base color green and I added Ultramarine Blue to the mix. After painting it in, I dropped in some Raw Sienna close to the egg. After this dried, I needed to make the egg show through the shadow. To do this I used Gamboge (M.Graham) and painted it in where the egg is in shadow. I saw that it needed some pink so I added some Quinacridone Rose. I painted the dark to the left side of the eggs with the same color as the dark on the right side.<br />
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I then started to paint the base of the bowl. I painted the light color on the whole base of the bowl with base color plus some thalo blue. I painted a very light wash with this color. When that dried I painted the shadowed side. I used the same color with more thalo in it, plus adding some Quin. Rose at the bottom. I then painted the reddish base with the same red and the rim and mingling the colors.<br />
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Now the big shadow! It's a very large area so you have to work fast even though it is done wet on wet, if it's anything like today with 48% humidity, your paper will dry fast. I used ultramarine blue + thalo blue + a little winsor red. However, when you get closer to the eggs, you have to drop in some quinacridone rose and winsor yellow. Near the single egg I just dropped in quinacridone rose. Near the bowl I dropped in a little sap green but not too much. If you are not happy with the shadow, you can do it over again, but you have to dry the paper completely with a hair dryer. Then rewet it all and do the same thing again. I did it twice to get a stronger color and it also smooths out some blotches. <br />
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Here is the finished painting, although it is a demo picture and a little sloppy, but I actually like all the wiggly edges! I'm actually getting used to painting on an easel sideways! The last thing to paint is the inside of the broken shells. I used ultramarine + winsor red but on the bottom one I put some of the color that is in the shadow underneath it. I added a shadow on the broken shell, and I added some shadow underneath on the table. And it's done!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-62699714351454062092017-05-04T21:05:00.000-07:002017-05-19T19:54:10.793-07:00CHESTERTOWN FOUNTAIN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are starting a painting of a fountain that many are familiar with in Chestertown, MD. The photo came out very blue so we are going to change it a bit.</div>
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I have added the tree trunks using ultramarine blue + maroon perylene + raw sienna. After mixing these colors I first put a wash of raw sienna on the tree and then dropped in the darker tree color. As the trees get closer to you they are darker. The ones that are receding I used a lighter wash. Leave some leaf room by skipping the trunks in a few places. You can see it here. Don't get too detailed with the branches....you don't have to tell the viewer everything! I continued the color of the tree trunk on the left through the shadow on the ground. I also added in the bench on the right. I used burnt sienna + ultramarine blue being careful to leave a little highlight on the top of the bench.</div>
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I started to work on the man scooping debris out of the fountain. He already had a shadow wash of violet on him so I just mixed a skin color of raw sienna + quinacridone rose and put that on his face and hands. I gave him a gray sweatshirt just by swirling colors on my palette together. I put a little thalo blue on his shoulders as a bit of reflection from the sky which I actually noticed in the photo. I continued to do his pants while his sweatshirt was still wet to blend them together a bit. I used burnt sienna + ultramarine for his pants. I added his hair with this color also, leaving a bit of highlight on the top of his head. I then did the bucket with the same color only I added neutral tint to it to do the interior. I did his scoop with ultramarine at the bottom portion because the upper part is metal. After the man's clothing dried a bit, I added some shadows to his shirt with some violet dark that I had on my palette.</div>
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I started then to add the third value to the fountain using the same colors except with some raw sienna in the mix of ultramine + ultramarine turquoise. By just looking at the photo and squinting I pulled out the darkest darks and painted those but exaggerating them a bit since the photo isn't very good. Try not to get too detailed since your eye will tell it is a fountain and unless you are doing a photo realistic painting, don't put yourself through the torture!! You are just giving the impression of a statue/fountain.</div>
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I painted this barn that is on a blueberry farm called Steep Hill on a beautiful sunny cool August day in Fayette, Maine. I brought my paints and sat in the shade to paint their barn which I have seen every time we come and have always wanted to paint it. I knew I didn't have much time to paint and had to paint pretty fast because I knew it wouldn't take long for everyone to pick the berries so we could go back to the cabin to make a pie! This is our very favorite place to go. There is nothing like a summer in Maine on the lake.<br />
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So I started by wetting the paper in the sky area and the left side of the painting up to where you see the the violet part which is the rock wall. I used a diluted wash of ultramarine blue for the sky areas and also put in a very light green above the barn for the distant trees while still wet. The light green I made with sap green and winsor yellow. I then added a darker green into the lighter green with sap green with a little ultramarine in it. You can see where I added the greens near the trees all wet into wet. I added raw sienna as the background brush behind the trees. I let that all dry, then I painted the trees. I used a few colors: raw sienna, bluer violet (ultramarine + winsor red), (brownish blue)burnt sienna + ultramarine. I started with the raw sienna, then while wet, I added the violet on the left side of the tree, being careful to save the raw sienna on the right side. I added in the brownish blue on top of the violet also while wet. When the tree was dry I added a darker brownish blue in spots.<br />
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I then started to paint the rocks and roof of the barn. I used ultramarine + raw sienna with much more blue. One thing I want to point out. The M. Graham brand of paint has a different color version of raw sienna than Winsor Newton. It is darker and not so light yellow. I get a whole different color than those that have mixed ult. blue with the Winsor Newton brand raw sienna. Some students who used it got a green color and that's not right. It should be a blueish gray color. I just put that in very haphazard and blending out the bottom with water. I put it on the roof very roughly and then touched in some winsor red a bit. This is where I stopped for now.<br />
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Now I added some darks. The trees behind the barn I used M. Graham's Hookers Green mixed with ultramarine blue and some burnt sienna. I loosely painted them in and went down near the flag, adding water to soften. I also put a little raw sienna into that along the outer edges too to vary the color and make it look a little more sun struck. I used this same green to do the trees on the left but watered it down and also added winsor yellow to some of the leaves. All this is done very loosely with scribbly strokes. Holding the brush away from the ferrel helps. I also added this green to the grasses along the barn, adding strokes of raw sienna also. When this dried slightly, I added the darker green around as you can see in the photo. I also added darks for the front opening doorway of the barn and the left side of the trees using ultramarine + winsor red + burnt sienna. It creates a deep violet. The barn opening I painted using this violet halfway down and then throwing in a strong mix of raw sienna. I also added this violet along the roof edges as a shadow and in the windows.<br />
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Here is a little closer up of the rocks and grasses. I started adding the darker sides of the rocks with a flat brush with ultramarine blue + winsor red + raw sienna. That's the 2nd value of dark on the rocks. Then a deeper value was added by adding burnt sienna to that mix I used for the 2nd value. I laid in some sap green over some of them also to look a little mossy. I added the greens and violets on my palette to put in the forground grasses and front grass. I really just mushed everything together. A very technical term! Feel free to drop in different colors here and have fun....but don't go overboard! I also did some spattering but that's not visible in this photo. You can go back up to the top picture to see the finished painting. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-27599892554935067212016-12-01T06:21:00.006-08:002016-12-01T06:21:59.114-08:00Roses In A Pickle Jar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This became a class project by request, but I only have one picture of the painting in process and not a complete step-by-step. The colors for the roses are quinacridone rose, opera rose, winsor yellow, winsor red and a violet made with thalo blue and winsor yellow.<br />
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Some of the rose petals are warmer and some cooler. The warmer ones I mixed the quin rose with winsor yellow. The other cooler areas I used just quin. rose and/or opera rose.<br />
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You can see where i added winsor yellow to the pink areas to warm them up. The leaves and stems are painted with sap green. Again, where it is warmer I added winsor yellow and cooler I added ultramarine blue. I used the sap green alone in many cases. Sometimes I added thalo blue dropped in a few areas.<br />
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The black label is with neutral tint (black) and it is darker towards the top and I added quin. rose to the bottom portion with more water and lighter.<br />
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The green label is sap green. I added winsor yellow in the middle portion and neutral tint (black) in the outer areas along the side. I painted the label straight out and then later when dry, lifted out highlights. After lifting out the highlights, when it dried, I gave it a glaze of thalo blue.<br />
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The shadow on the table is with ultramarine blue, quin rose and some sap green along the base of the jar. I also added in some thalo blue with the ultramarine and dulled down the intensity of the blue with a little green.....not too much.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Took these pictures at a local garden center but trying to compose a drawing is difficult with moving fish! So I used 2 different photos to try to generally get what I wanted. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first thing I did was do the water. I wet all the water and I used <i>ultramarine blue</i> for the top part of the picture. Then I gradually changed the color of the water by adding <i>orange</i> to it. I also dropped in orange and also <i>raw sienna</i> especially towards the bottom area. After that dried I worked on the fish. I began painting it first with <i>gamboge </i>or you can use a bright yellow. Then while it was wet I used <i>perinone orange </i>(a Daniel Smith color) although you can use any bright dark orange or make one using permanent rose and winsor yellow or any bright cool yellow. Being careful not to get the orange on the upper top part of the fish so the yellow shows through. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I mixed a violet color with <i>ultramarine + quinacridone rose </i>and used it to make the darker marks on the fish. When the violet goes on top of the orange, it will tone it down quite a bit so don't worry that the violet is too bright! As I used the violet on the beginning part of the tail, I dropped a little <i>orange</i> into it. I also used <i>ultramarine</i> on the end of the tail and dropped some <i>orange</i> into it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I put the <i>orange</i> on the fins but I also used a scrubber brush to soften and extend the fins so they would look more translucent. I added some <i>violet</i> into the fins to continue the translucent look. This violet has some orange in it so that it wasn't so bright! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The flower is sunlit. Keeping that in mind I gave it an initial very light wash using <i>opera rose,</i> but also leaving a few areas white. After that dried, I used the same color only less water but also added a bit of <i>ultramarine</i> to purple it up a bit.<i> </i>I made it even darker on the shadowed side of the flower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The center part of the flower I used <i>gamboge</i> and glazed the right side where it is shadowed with some of the pink. Now for the lily pads. There are 2 lily pads without the striped effect, although they are both done the same. I used <i>sap green</i> and added <i>raw sienna</i> to it and also dropped it in in places. The green of the lily pads is not bright. But, I also saw a little <i>thalo blue</i> in it so, I dropped some of that in too.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The maroon stripe effect on the other lily pads is from using <i>maroon perylene</i> with some <i>ultramarine</i> in it. There are little bud type things in the centers of the lily pads. I just used a little<i> raw sienna</i> on them or in some cases left them white and gave them a shadowed side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finishing touches.......added some yellow to the fins. Added roots in the water connecting the lily pads....just ran my brush with some of the lily pad color through the water freehand. Added scales with the violet color and some orange ones too. Added a touch of white highlight with gouache to the lily pad edges and places where I needed some white to the fins. The bubbles were added with gouache. After doing the circles, I scrubbed a little inside the circle to make it look lighter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the photo I took of an autumn tree that I loved because of the colors and the blue sky behind the leaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started painting some of the leaves on the right. I used <b>cadmium yellow </b>on all of them but on some dropped in <b>winsor red</b> and a Daniel Smith color called <b>quinacridone sienna</b> (if you don't have this color, you can make it by mixing quinacridone gold + burnt sienna + quinacridone rose). I used<b> winsor red</b> and <b>quinacridone rose</b> on most of the brighter red leaves and <b>quin. sienna</b> on the orangier leaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did the background starting in the upper left corner. I<b> </b>painted wet into wet for the blue sky only (not the leaves) in <b>ultramarine blue. </b>I then painted the leaves while the blue was still wet with <b>cadmium yellow.</b> I painted quickly and only painted halfway down the paper with the blue and then went up with the yellow so the paper didn't dry and the yellow would blend in with the blue. Some areas up top turned green which I wanted it to do. Brought the ultramarine down and then added a violet mix of <b>winsor red + ultramarine. </b>I kept working down quickly and got to the next group of leaves again with some blue and violet. Once I got to the lower left, I added a bit of <b>cadmium orange hue from Daniel Smith, </b>under the violet, keeping it light. Then I used<b> burnt sienna under that and dropped in other colors to it such as quin. sienna, cobalt, violet, and quin gold. </b>All wet into wet. I tried to make it look like distant and blurred branches and leaves. As you go from the lower left corner to the right, it starts to transition into<b> sap green + ultramarine.</b> I put clear water down along the bottom of the picture and dropped in a very light wash of a violet with<b> alizarin crimson + cobalt blue. </b>It is very very light. While that was still wet, I finished under the big branch by adding blues and greens and adding a few leaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did a few more leaves and then started painting the big trunk and branch with <b>cobalt blue </b>also noting that there is a highlight where the big branch comes out of the trunk that I just used water to paint with instead of the blue. I then dropped in a little <b>quin. rose</b> around that light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the cobalt blue dried, I painted a mix of <b>burnt sienna + winsor red + ultramarine </b>over the top of it, being careful to keep the light area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I kept painting out to the branches on the left, keeping them a little light because I didn't want to call too much attention to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I filled in with ultramarine and sap green above the branch. I also added some circle shapes below the branch with a small round scrub brush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pretty much I just filled in the rest of the picture. I did blend the leaves more above so they were so individual, using all the same colors as before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is my finished painting. I spattered some dots on the leaves with burnt sienna and also glazed some of the leaves with burnst sienna also just to make them a little darker in tone so some of the brighter leaves would stand out.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-53100168860404880772015-10-21T14:07:00.000-07:002015-10-26T08:50:46.231-07:00BLUEBIRD - Class Project October 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is a photo of a bluebird that flew into my yard and landed on the fence post. I was able to take a picture quickly. They are my absolute favorite bird and I wanted to paint it. I chose this for a beginner painting, although as I got into it saw that it wasn't so beginner. However, there are a lot of good techniques in this one and it is excellent for beginners to do.<br />
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I am a little hesitant about the background and not sure how it will come out. The values are very similar within the painting but I will give it a shot.<br />
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I started painting the blue part of the bird, but I also prepared the rust color for the breast because there are parts like the upper part near the top of the wing where the rust and blue meet and blurs out. I wanted to paint these at the same time. I used a mix of <b>cobalt blue and cerulean blue</b> in whatever ratio you'd like but I used about half and half. I just painted the blue straight on and didn't worry about shading or anything. This I will add later. After the blue was applied, I added the rust color which is<b> raw sienna and alizarin.</b> Do not add too much alizarin. Occasionally I added some <b>yellow ochre </b>in areas and <b>quinacridone rose.</b> There is also a deeper more violet area of the upper breast that I painted by adding <b>cobalt blue </b>to the mixture. It should look like a rusty violet.<br />
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After doing the rust color, I added the gray on the underbelly with <b>payne's gray and cadmium red lt.</b> Later on after it dries I scrubbed out some of the gray and added the white feathery feel to it. I dropped in a little <b>cobalt blue</b> in places also.<br />
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After that I went back into the blue of the bird and added some darker areas with <b>cobalt and maroon perylene.</b> I touched in some <b>quinacridone rose</b> in some areas as well and at time mixed the <b>rose with the cobalt blue to get a violet.</b> The gray I used for the underbelly I also added to parts of the tail and the wing and to the right of the eye. <br />
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I put in the eyeball and beak. I used <b>payne's gray </b>for the eye and for the beak but also added <b>cobalt blue </b>above in the middle of the beak, being careful to leave a highlight on the top.<br />
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After doing this part of the bird, I started the background. I wanted to do the background before putting any more darks on the bird because I wasn't sure yet how dark to make it.<br />
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I used <b>sap green </b>mostly for the background. I dropped in <b>cobalt blue </b>to a few areas you can see and also <b>yellow ochre. </b>I added a little <b>cobalt </b>to the <b>sap green </b>when I needed a little darker green. When the background was not too wet, I added some branches with the same colors. It's important for the paper to not be too wet or else it will blur too much. Timing is everything and it's not easy! Best to practice.<br />
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After doing the background I darkened up the bird a bit. Then I did the fence post. A drybrush technique was used here. I used <b>payne's gray and cadmium red lt. </b>Using the side of the brush I made thi<b>s </b>textural effect. While wet, I dropped in a bit of <b>burnt sienna. </b>I used <b>cobalt blue and burnt sienna </b>for the iron rod the bird is standing on. There are touches of <b>cadmium red lt.</b> in there too.<br />
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This is the finished painting. I still haven't decided about the background and I think I am just going to leave it and say it is a bluebird study! I am anxious to see what the class does with it.....a lot of times I get good ideas from them!!!<br />
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I decided the background needed fixing and the bird needed darkening a bit, so here is the newer finished version. I also darkened the fence post a bit. Hopefully the bird stands out a bit better. I lightened up around it's head also by scrubbing a little with Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. That stuff is amazing!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-77845172689149066002015-10-21T13:15:00.002-07:002015-10-21T13:15:41.435-07:00DAISIES - Intermediate Classwork October 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I thought this picture I took of daisies came out pretty, so I decided to paint them and thought they would make a good class project.<br />
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First I did a very rough thumbnail sketch with pencil and watercolor on top just to determine the values and whether this would make a pleasing painting.<br />
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Then I started painting the background first, but before I did that I wet the flowers with plain water because I wanted the background to be a soft edge against some of the flowers on the right. I used <b>payne's gray mixed with cobalt blue</b>. Sometimes I added more cobalt to look more blue and other times I used more payne's gray. You can tell in the picture when I did that. <br />
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While the background was still wet I painted the shadow side of the flowers (<b>cobalt blue with a touch of payne's gray</b>) in the middle and the right. If the background started to dry (which it did) I gave it a spritz of water and that caused droplets which I like, but this is my demo picture and my actual one I finished didn't have this effect.<br />
I was not super careful with getting all the petals correct and worked quickly. I didn't want this picture to be so exact and tight.<br />
I then painted the flower centers. I started with the very left flower. That center should be the brightest and it doesn't have any blue glaze over it like the others do so the colors should come out a little brighter. I painted the whole center with <b>cadmium yellow and cadmium yellow light,</b> and pulled the color through to some of the petals where I saw some yellow in them. I added some <b>cadmium red light</b> around the edges of the centers to give it more warmth and then I touched in some<b> cobalt blue</b> around the bottom edge. I did that same procedure with the other centers but looking at the photo for differences in shape and color for each one. Also I started to add the darks of the background in between some of the petals and the stems.<br />
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Then I did the stems which I used the <b>cobalt blue</b> and <b>cadmium yellow light</b> to achieve. One of the stems is very white which I liked and left alone except to give it a very light wash of cadmium yellow light. I basically made a very light green and painted that first on the stems. (From this photo it doesn't look very light but it is) I then made the green a little darker by adding more blue and then painted the darker side of the stem when almost dry but wet enough to make a soft edge. This takes a little patience to wait for the right timing to paint that in. If you mess up, you can always just scrub out a highlight. This works as well and makes a soft edge. <br />
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There are shadows on the petals and I painted those with <b>cobalt blue and maroon perylene.</b> I used the same colors and the background to fill in the glass vase and made sure the stem colors were carried down into it. Keep a highlight around the rim and just a few other highlights in there but it is mostly observing the glass and see what you see. There are no tricks to doing glass really....just paint what you see!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-45398645433343039632015-01-28T18:41:00.003-08:002015-01-28T19:35:02.651-08:00Seagull Along The Shore<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the photograph I used for my painting that I took at Jones Beach in New York in the winter time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> First I masked out the seagull. Then I was able to do a wash over the whole picture. I started wet on wet and used cerulean blue with a little quinacridone rose in it. Be careful not to add too much rose! While still wet I dropped in some color for the sand underneath. I used a mix of cadmium red and raw sienna.....for some darker areas I mixed in some cerulean blue to tone it down a bit. Then I added some quinacridone rose in places in the upper left of the seagull and a bit to the right bottom. If your painting is not dark enough, proceed to do the wash over again until you get the value you want. Be careful not to make it too dark or else the bird will get lost. You have to make the value of the bird darker than the water and if the water is too dark, the bird would have to be way too dark to show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Now we can add some of the ripples in the water after everything has dried. I used the same colors of cadmium red and raw sienna and did add a little bit of cerulean blue to it. I made it really watery and applied the paint very loosely. By holding the brush handle further down the handle and not as close to the ferrule, you can obtain a looser stroke. Also be careful of the angle of the ripples. If they slant to much upward then it starts to look like rain! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I made the color a little less watery for the reflection of the seagull ....it's a darker shade there. I also added a bluer ripple of cerulean blue and burnt sienna. Don't make it too dark, though. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I put in the bluish shadow of the seagull using Thalo blue. The darker blue lines in the shadow I mixed thalo blue with some maroon perylene. When it was dry, I lifted the highlights out with a slightly wet brush and blotting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Now it's time to work on the seagull. You can remove the masking and put the details of the bird on the paper by transferring the details with tracing paper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is reflective light from the water and sand showing on the underside of the bird. I painted the breast of the bird wet on dry using ultramarine blue mixed with quinacridone rose and raw sienna. Drop in yellow ochre and quinacridone rose in place where you see reflected light such as under the beak area and just above the legs. I went over this a few times to get the right value. After it was dry, I wiped out a few highlights with my brush above the left leg. After it all dried, I scrubbed with a soft brush the hard edge formed between the shadow and the white part of the bird. If you feel you would like to add some Thalo blue to parts you can. I did but very lightly in areas on top of the head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now to finish the rest of the seagull. Once you add the nice gray and black details of the back feathers, it will start to look like a seagull! I achieved the gray by mixing thalo blue and cadmium red in equal amounts. You might have to adjust one color or another to get the gray you think is correct. I would make sure it is not on the red and more on the blue side. There is a touch of violet shade on certain feathers though and you can adjust for that. The dark black is achieved by just mixing a stronger mix of the color. There are darker shadows under some of the feathers ....take note! This is the fun part! Any feathers you missed going around that are white, you can put in with some gouache. The beak is very hard to explain how to paint. I used raw sienna in the darker areas and used a dark to get the blacker areas using burnt sienna and ultramarine blue. Be careful to keep the highlighted areas of the beak white. You will have to zoom to get the details. The eye is also hard to explain. Zoom in and you will notice the eye is yellow ochre with some dark running through it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The legs I did with raw sienna, ultramarine blue and quinacridone red mixed to get a dark, but also used raw sienna separate where it was highlighted. There is a light side.....zoom and you will see it. </span><br />
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We are painting this picture in class. It is a fairly simple winter scene and the first thing we are painting is the sky.<br />
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Wet on wet I painted the sky with a mix of cobalt teal and cerulean blue, concentrating the most color in the center. Then I painted some low lying clouds while still wet with a violet mix of cerulean and permanent rose. I carried this below the mountain line.<br />
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While the paper was still wet, I added some distant trees with a strong mix of cerulean and maroon perylene. Don't make it too strong that it is very dark....remember the atmospheric conditions are cloudy and you wouldn't see it so dark, but by keeping less water on your brush you can keep the paint from spreading too much.<br />
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There are also some green distant trees that I added with sap green and a little cerulean blue.<br />
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I let the paper dry and then added the rest of the background trees, being careful not to get too detailed and let the colors mix.....I wanted it to appear foggy. The rusty color is alizarin and burnt sienna with a little cobalt in it. I also used a violet with with the same colors except more cobalt and less burnt sienna. The darker violet I used ultramarine instead of the cobalt. The pine trees are sap green with a little cadmium red. I added some cobalt to shade one side.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I chose to play down the colors in the clothes as you might notice. I find that we tend to try to achieve the same color intensity in the clothing when we are doing portraits. Depending on what you want to focus on, of course, it's best to play down these areas. The face is where you mostly want your focus to be directed. If I were to paint the basket the hot pink it is in reality, I immediately shift my focus and things become out of whack. The skirt is therefore mostly light in tone except where the folds and creases are and some darker shadowing on the left side. I randomly painted the flowers in her skirt first....very undetailed. I think you can figure out what colors you can use here. Then I painted around them to do the skirt and I used <span style="color: cyan;">cobalt teal</span></span> and <span style="color: yellow;">winsor yellow</span>. Some areas of the skirt I added more yellow, some I added more teal......all watered down a good amount. The darker folds of the skirt I added some ultramarine to that mix and I made it slightly stronger (used less water). There is a little scalloped edge separating the top and bottom of the skirt. I darkened under that scalloped edge.<br />
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The basket is pretty straight forward. I initially painted it a light wash of <span style="color: magenta;">perm. rose</span> and a tiny bit of <span style="color: blue;">cobalt.</span> The interior of the basket is a little darket violet (added more <span style="color: blue;">cobalt</span>), however I added a touch of <span style="color: yellow;">winsor</span> <span style="color: yellow;">yellow</span> to it to dull it down. Not too much. I even threw in a little <span style="color: cyan;">cobalt teal</span> to it. It is VERY light.....don't be heavy handed with it.....remember we are downplaying this area. After this dries, I made a little heavy mix of the initial violet I used to paint the basket and put in some minute details.....adding a little more cobalt to darken towards the bottom. You might have to add a little yellow to tone down that violet shadow if you don't already have it in your mix.....don't make that shadowed violet too violety....(my word).<br />
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OK....the legs.....they are done the same way as the face. They have a bit more yellow tone, so add a bit more raw sienna. The leg that is tucked under though has violet tones in it. I mixed a violet and put that just under the skirt area. (<span style="color: magenta;">perm. rose</span> and <span style="color: #073763;">ultramarine</span>) I accentuated some of the bone and muscle area by concentrating color in those areas....such as the calf and knee and leaving some white showing.<br />
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The shoes are very understated. They are just a violet with yellow in it to tone it down. Pick a violet...it will work. <br />
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Now that those areas are finished we can darken the face and add background. I think I forgot to talk about the lips! All the shadows, facial features that need to be darkened I did. The lips are <span style="color: #660000;">alizarin</span> watered down. Add violet to deepen it toward the edges of her smile. It's always lighter where the lips get fatter. I ended up putting a little white highlight on the lower lip with gouache.<br />
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Here's a closer view of her features. I darkened the upper eyelids with more of the skin tone. Put a few more blue in places. Glazed the skin with raw sienna in areas on the left side of her face, sides of her mouth, cheeks. Also glazed areas with perm. rose after that dried. The bridge of the nose has a shadow on it. I used raw sienna, let that dry and used cobalt. Some of these glazes have to dry in between. You can't add wet on wet sometimes because the colors will just get lost. This is not a very large picture so that makes it more difficult. <br />
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The background was finished after that. I decided to put in a row of trees very loosely. I used sap green and cobalt with burnt sienna in places. Very light wash.....not a focal point and it's also in the near distance. I painted it wet on dry but then took some water and brought it down past the horizon line. Then I darkened the grass area around her feet. I made it look like there were flowers around by just not painting and negatively painting in some roundish shapes. I put in sap and cobalt with raw sienna and burnt sienna....all individually running it around on the paper. You might want to practice that before attempting. It takes a loose hand. That's it!!! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12746031059321127918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247737109012668307.post-61666367391162645362014-05-15T06:56:00.002-07:002014-05-15T07:29:34.097-07:00HAIR AND BACKGROUND<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"> These are my initial washes.</span><br />
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This is how it looks after doing the beginning wash. As I made my way around the girl I started incorporating the land color of <span style="color: #38761d;">sap green</span> and throwing in some <span style="color: #660000;">burnt sienna</span> and <span style="color: blue;">cobalt</span> in areas. You can see the brush strokes I used. This is the initial layer. I darkened it all later.</div>
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Here's a closeup of the jacket. The shirt I just used a violet and darkened around the inner edges by adding more blue to the violet.<br />
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