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| I believe I left our friend here ... |
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| I did some thin washes of bright colors for an underpainting - alizarin crimson, aureolin and quin. burnt orange. |
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| Then I started glazing and glazing and glazing, sometimes with the original colors, sometimes with a dark brown. I did the same with the body - layers of different hues of green. |
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| I have finally reached the stage where he has the appearance of being backlit by a soft light. I still can hear the instructor, in one of the two sets of watercolor classes I took, saying "darker ... darker", every time she commented on my painting. I have a tendency to be tentative until prodded. |
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| And I am still playing around with the geese, trying to bring a stronger focus to the goose with his wings out. I've gone over the entire background - geese and all - with a red-orange wash, and the other two geese in the daylight got a thin wash of cobalt blue. I may yet bring out some more intense shadows on the #1 goose, and do more with the ground. Thank you for dropping by, and, as always, your comments are welcome. |
