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| A detailed drawing, with all my scribbled notes [probably phone numbers and to-do lists, too] |
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| I may have posted this earlier. This is the second attempt to get the color and darkness I want in the background - about eight w/w washes ... |
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| Using indanthrone, quin. pink and aureole to get flower colors; phthalo green, gold and burnt orange for the leaves and stem. |
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| More glazes - starting to look like hollyhocks. |
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| This is where my brain is balking. I "see" yellow and shadows, but somehow cannot make myself paint those shadows dark enough to look real - give the petals depth, form, curvature. A yellow hollyhock should not be blue! ARRGHHHHH!!! Looks like it's time for guts, "damn the torpedoes", whatever. To be continued Thank you all so much for dropping by! |
