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| I started by laying in some graded washes - aureolin, quin. pink and cobalt blue. |
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| More cobalt blue. |
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| It was looking rather sparse, so I put in an impressionistic sort of drape of poplar leaves behind the goose. I'm not 100% thrilled with it, but it will do. |
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| The lighting in the reference photo was not quite what I needed, so I used my sketch to rough in a plan for the shadows. |
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| And here, I've started with shadowing, using quin. pink and cobalt blue. It's not quite a Black Russian - more of a Dark Slav. That's my feeling about my painting right now. And yes, pure imported borscht runs through my veins. All my grandparents came from the Ukraine just after the First World War. I attribute all my quirks to that fact! Bruno is my Cossack steed. { He doesn't know it yet. :) } I love the old Red Army Chorus. A Welsh men's chorus is a very close second. I still have an old 78 RPM vinyl of the opera "Alexander Nevsky" buried in my closet, along with many other vinyl records. Anyway, there it is - a bit more of who I am. The art will straighten out. I'm just going through what all of us artists go through from time to time. And as ever and always, please be welcome to leave a note. |
