Continuing Watercolor (November and December 2014)

I worked on the background a little.  It needs to be darker to pop the giraffe forward.

I added more shadows and dark details to the face.  I glazed the background yellow.  The red needs to be moved around a bit (rather than all at the top).  I added red to the vest.  it needs another pass with some darker shadows.  I need to do the one collar with blue.  I need to do the buttons as well.

This could be done, I might do a bit of small things, but it looks OK.  Remember, I wet the branches and used  yellow green, dark green, and red brown to shade the branched and ends (the ends could use a bit of shadow and detail).  I wet the petal and dropped in yellow and red.  Later I added gray shadows over the yellow and red and between the petals and on the edge of some petals.  I added red and yellow to the middle as well as layers of dark (needs to be a bit darker still).  I used a very thinned gray to add the 'ribbing' on the petals.

I wet the branches and used yellow green, red brown, and dark brown to shade them.  The flower needs more work.

Continuing Watercolor (November & December 2014)

I made the background around the giraffe's head a bit darker and started to add some texture.  It is spotty and needs more, but it is a decent start.

I mixed a dark (blue and brown) and did his beard (basically scribbling) and his eye and eyebrow areas.  I painted a little on the glasses to define them.  I added some shadows to his face and neck.

I wet the background and painted in some strips of color.  I mixed a medium green and painted the center.

This is from another class.  It shows a different background and colors.  It is also a step further on the painting than the demo in class.

This is from another class, it is the start of this flower and needs lots more layers.  It is one using rubber cement as the background texture.