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| I worked on this at home adding some dark and color to the foreground and some dark values and highlight textures and details to the mushroom. |
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| I have added more darks and lights as well as details to the mushroom. I have also added in the green background. For the background I wet the area, washed in a medium green and dropped in dots of yellow green, darker green, and white. I have used white over the dark areas of the foreground adding texture and toning it down. |
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| Local color. I worked on the blueberry 1 up from the bottom right. I added more detail, value, and color. I also worked on the branch adding color and value (esp. highlight textures). |
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| Textured background, rubber cement. This is after 3 layers of rubber cement and color with the rubber cement removed. |
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| This is a texture sheet I forgot to post. It has sponging, water to add texture (small sprat bottle and blossoms). Also, at the top is the gum arabic texture. |
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| I worked on the berry second in from the right. It needs more adjustments, but is coming along. I added a bit more values, color, and detail. |
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| I added shadows in the white area as well as some color, adjusted the purple on the bottom background (darkened it a bit)added color and highlights to the middle (it needs darks now), added some values to the buds, and worked on the stems a bit. It is close but needs a bit more tweaking. |
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| I added another layer of rubber cement and then another layer of color (all of the rubber cement is still on the paper). |
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| I wet the mushroom and bottom foreground area and dropped in a yellow-orange color. I tried to use salt but it did not work (possibly too humid). After this was dry I started adding the medium and dark browns to the stem/stalk and the underside. I also added darks to the bottom foreground area. I wet a shape, added a dark brown and dotted it while wet with yellow, indigo and/or a red brown. I textured the top right of the mushroom with an orange color sort of like a messy pointillism with a brush. While it was still damp I dotted it with white. |
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| Plastic wrap texture. This texture was created by wetting the surface, dropping in color, and while it's still wet I laid plastic wrap on it scrunching the wrap into shapes and in the direction I wanted. This background was done specifically for the dogwood demo. |
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| I cropped the background to the size I needed. |
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| I transferred the drawing and then used only white on the flower for my first layer. I mixed a brown and did the branches. I allowed this to dry. I did a second layer of white (often 2-5 layers are needed, especially in the lightest areas). I added some color to the white and started adding a few details on the petals.I added some white to the k=light areas on the branches |
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| The left side is a method of blowing the paint (I used a straw, a blow dryer works well). The right side is called sanding. I wet the rectangle and used rough sand paper and watercolor pencils. I sanded the pencil over the wet area and the dotted texture is created. When I use this I use it towards the end on my last pass of washes. |
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| On the left side is wax paper texture. I wet the paper, dropped in color, crumpled the wax paper a little, and laid it on top with something like a book to press it down. Do not remove until it is dry. On the right is plastic wrap texture. This texture was created by wetting the surface, dropping in color, and while it's still wet I laid plastic wrap on it scrunching the wrap into shapes and in the direction I wanted. Do not remove until it is dry. |
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| Rubber cement texture, first layer. I drizzled and brushed rubber cement on the paper. After dry I wet the paper and dropped in color. I plan to do at least 2 more layers. |
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| Salt texture. I wet the surface, dropped in color, and when the surface is shiny, not puddles, I drop in salt (when the paper is thin and not stretched this is done in sections as the paper dries). I used a large salt and a fine salt - you can see the different texture it makes. |
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| Local color. I have started to add some color and value to the original local color (bottom right) and I finished adding the rest of the local color. |
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| I have started adding the values and some details. I often use white a lot during this stage. |
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| Value Study. I finished the value study. The bottom right berry has some color added. |
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| I have added more color and have adjusted values as well. |
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| Gouache Value Study. I started this with one color. I wet the berries and used the gouache similarly to watercolor and concentrated on the values. |
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| I started to add some other color. I will keep enhancing the values as I add the color. |
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| Gouache Value Study, a second version. I started this with one color. I wet the berries and used the gouache similarly to watercolor and concentrated on the values. |
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| I finished the values. |
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| Gouache Local Color. This technique starts with putting down flat local color (the basic color of the object). Later the values and details will be painted on top. If this were not a demo I would finish all the local color before adding values. |
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| This is after the addition of a few values on the two berries. |
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| Gouache Local Color, a second version. This technique starts with putting down flat local color (the basic color of the object). Later the values will be painted on top. |
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| This is after the addition of white gouache on the two berries ***The colors of the demo photos for the same subject often vary as the method of taking the picture and/or time of day has varied. |
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| Gouache exercises (incomplete of course) |
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| This is an older version. It is not exactly like yours as far as numbers, but it has the colors finished. |
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| The Gouache exercise sheet partially completed. |
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| Local Color. Paint flat color, close to the dominant color of the subject matter. |
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| Value Study. Use one color and paint the values, the darks and lights, to create form. This will be the same as using watercolor. |