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| I have mapped out the shadows and colors for the blue parrot ... |
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| ... and have started the black parrot, to get an idea of how dark I must go ... |
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| Ack!!! I don't know why this image has come out so light! However, seeing the darks of the black parrot, I know I will have to get more intense with colors on the lighter, blue tulip. I am painting both tulips using w/w washes, dropping in colors to the water. For the blue parrot tulip, I am painting with mixtures of aureolin [very little], quin. pink and cobalt blue. On the bottom shaded petal, I have glazed with alizarin crimson, then indanthrone blue. For the black tulip, I am using alizarin crimson, quin. violet, and a mixture of quin. burnt orange, quin. violet and indanthrone for the black. The stamen in the middle is aureolin, quin. burnt orange and indanthrone. My plan is to use the violet for the petals in direct light [cooler] and crimson in the richer, darker areas. The black parrot will need a lot of glazing, and I find I am having to use an extremely delicate touch when adding the pigments. That's it for life in tulip land. I am still working on the tug boat painting, and will post the final result. Now it's off to the land of horse ... Thank you for dropping by, and your comments are always welcome! |
I noticed that you are in to dark backgrounds at the moment ;) Looks great! I´ll be back soon to see whats happening! Take care my friend.
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful...Arianna
ReplyDeleteYou really have your hands full there. I can see you are lots of washes away from completion. They will be lovely when you are done.
ReplyDeleteIts beautiful Kat- we love the colors... magic does not happen in one day- it takes time,, more time.
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tweedles and moms
Now we really see the multitude of the foliage and the precious lining of the flower coming along so beautifully...we will be patient and wait till the end :-)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful so far! Have fun in horse land!
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be fabulous. Its already very striking and I love those beautiful frilly petals
ReplyDeleteThis is coming along so beautifully, Kathryn. I say "take your time" with this one...its such a nice painting!!! (after seeing the light background, you can see how much better the dark one is!)
ReplyDeleteLove parrot tulips. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.
ReplyDeleteIt's getting beautiful!! love to you Kathryn, Diana
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