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| Daffs are almost done ... |
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| Lilac leaves and buds opening ... |
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| Camellia in bloom |
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| Japonica blooming |
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| Narcissus looking lovely by the pond |
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| Bruno, muddy and hairy, but naked on the lower back lawn I just was looking at a blog I follow, and she had pictures of Spring ... under several inches of snow!!!!! UGH! But this ... THIS IS SPRING! |
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| My drawing with scribbled notes about how to handle the background [not that I listened!] |
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| After masking the pistils and stamens, I started with very thin washes of aureolin for the leaves and some cool pink for the petals. |
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| Some very thin and loose washes over the background using quin. gold and indanthrone. |
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| Painted the leaves with mixtures of the gold and blue. |
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| Again did the background wet-in-wet, to tone down the look of the leaves - they seemed to be overpowering the painting. |
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| I still didn't like the background, so went over all with a thin wash of indanthrone. |
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| Not liking the blue in the flower shadows, so I will glaze over with some fuschia. |
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| I am here now, and not sure what more I need to do ... something is needed. I will play with the form shadows in the petals with some quin. fuschia, and probably give the leaves a bit more depth. Thank you for visiting!! |
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| My sketch with some values indicated |
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| Masked out two tiny highlights in the eyes, then did a wet/wet wash with aureolin and dropped in some orange. Started the nose and mouth with some black made of orange, violet and dark blue. |
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| Added some pupils. |
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| Some direct painting of the darkest areas on her face, and a thin wash of red-orange in her ears. |
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| An all-over wet wash of violet, made of quin. rose and indanthrone. |
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| Then a wet wash of the black. |
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| More glazing of the eyes - a thin burnt orange with a dark purply-brown dropped in to indicate shadows and roundness. At this point, I have done about five or six glazes on the eyes. |
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| I had to borrow a photo from the internet, as the one sent to me as reference was almost unreadable. If I didn't know it was a cat beforehand, I wouldn't know what it was. |
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| Another internet photo - this one for the eye color. |
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| This was my first attempt using the photo the owner sent. UH ... NO! More to come today. I feel I am back in a good place again, especially with painting. I have two others I am working on, and some good ideas for the dog portrait and the seiner fishing boat. Thank you for dropping by!!! |
