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| Slowly working my way forward, doing detail work - tail done, hoof shadows, some work on the tack ... |
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| I started two botanical style paintings. These are hawthorn berries. The berries were started with quin. sienna. The leaves were done with a wash of aureolin, followed by quin. gold and phthalo green. |
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| ... glazed with alizarin crimson |
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| ... realized the reds and oranges were not going to give the depth of shadow I wanted, so did a dry brush glaze with a brown mixture. |
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| Now I am back to glazing with sienna here, and will move to alizarin and see what I get. Painting is 33 x 14 cm. |
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| Blackberries - some berries were started with cobalt blue, the others with brown madder and a aureolin/brown madder/cobalt blue mixture. |
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| Then I quickly got them dark - the berry on the left I tried to paint without masking, got impatient and masked the rest of the dark ones. |
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| Now I have to go back and soften and play with the edges left by the masking. This painting is 33 x 16 cm. It's a gorgeous, sunny day here, but the wind is HOWLING! I'll have to wait till it calms a bit before going out to play with the lad. He's been feeling very feisty lately with the cooler weather. Thank you for dropping by! |
