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| I added more dark to the beak on the swan and reflection. I worked more on the feather textures and shadow areas. Those marks tend to be line, dots, and scribbles - more like drawing. |
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| I added lots of fur texture marks - lines and dots. I varied the colors and values of these marks. I worked on the eye and added dark whiskers (my background is light and light whiskers would not show well). |
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| I used a skin color (you can use aureolin and quin. rose or something similar) and did a light value study for the first pass. The second pass I mixed a few colors - skin color + cobalt to make a purple, skin color + burnt sienna to make a darker skin color. I then went around with these colors to add more punch to the shadow areas. Then I used cobalt and painted the water areas. I mixed a black (pthalo green and perm. alizarin) and painted the glasses. Notice the value changes in the glasses... I added a little black to the water on the glasses as well. |
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| Acrylic (will do the same with gouache). I have added details. The white areas are how to lighten an area (two with texture and one in an area on the side of a leaf and one on a small edge). Next class I will glaze a color on top. I have also added details such as veins and textures. For the veins I used white for the vein and glazed on top and added a shadow of dark. |
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| Gouache (will do the same with acrylic). I worked mostly on the ear and eye and back of the head. I have started adding darks with highlighted areas on top. I have added textures (fur lines and dots) with white. When I add details and textures the paint is on the 'dry' side (just wet enough to move). |
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| Acrylic. I have finished 2 passes of the rubber cement/paint cycle. I have added the last rubber cement (3rd pass) and need to add paint. If I do this before the next class I will post it. After the 3rd pass is complete I plan to remove the rubber cement. The next class I plan to start on the face and hair/clothing details. |
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| Gouache. I have finished 2 passes of the rubber cement/paint cycle. I need to do the 3rd pass of rubber cement/paint. If I do this before the next class I will post it. After the 3rd pass is complete I plan to remove the rubber cement. The next class I plan to start on the face and hair/clothing details. |
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| Gouache. I added some details (left side especially). |
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| Gouache. I started to add texture, values, and details on the chicks head. |
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| Gouache. I have added a layer of white over the dark. It of course needs more work. |
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| Acrylic. I added another layer of rubber cement and after that dried more color. I let the color run by tilting the panel. |
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| Gouache. I added the first pass of color. |
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| Gouache. I did another round of rubber cement, allowed it to dry, and then more color. |
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| This is the acrylic exercise sheet. The colors are a tad washed out from being scanned. |
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| I darkened the top water to pop the swan forward and add contrast, added some shadows/darks to the leaves, I added shadows/darks and details to the swan, I added some dark to the water below the swan, I added orange (alizarin and aureolin) and black (pthalo green and alizarin) to the beak. I did a little scrubbing. |
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| I added details and darks to the cat. I added texture to the fur and the cats face (not complete yet). |
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| This is the new project transferred and with masking fluid. I added masking fluid in order to keep the white areas in the water so it will retain it's 'sparkly' appearance. |
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| Acrylic (sorry for the quality). This is after I worked on the background quite a bit, before class. |
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| Acrylic. This is after class where I started to add some values and details. |
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| Gouache (sorry for the quality). This is after I worked on the background quite a bit, before class. |
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| Gouache. This is after class where I started to add some values and details. |
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| Acrylic. I added some color and value. |
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| Gouache. I added some color and value. |
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| Acrylic. I transferred the drawing, swirled rubber cement in the hair and background areas, and painted with acrylic (light and watered down) over those areas. I will repeat this 3-5 more times. |
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| Gouache. This is the drawing transferred with rubber cement 'swirled' onto the hair and background areas. |
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| Gouache (you can do this with either medium). This is a rubber cement technique for making backgrounds. I swirled rubber cement onto the paper. Let it dry, and painted gouache onto the paper. I plan to do this 3-5 more times. |
