Continuing Watercolor (March & April 2015)

I have added more blueberries and leaves.  I have glazed a very light red over some of the leaves (to make the greens more real).  I started to add the stem at the top.  I have used the scrubber to make some white lines in the leaves and to life a few highlights out of the blueberries.   I want a variety of colors and especially values in the leaves and berries.  I am so close to getting the leaves done!

I have added the trees on the right side.  They need snow and a bit more texture.  I may also add a bit of brown to the trees (only a little) and a bit of purple to the barn.  I want to unify them a little.  Might add more blue to the sky.

I added a few more areas on the first pass.  I have also done 2 passes on the face and basket.  This has a ways to go, but is off to a good start.  This is an excellent exercise to hone those value skills!

Aqueous Acrylic & Gouache (March & April 2015)

Acrylic.  I am close to complete.  I have changed the shape on the back of the rooster and it needs another pass with the dark.  I added some details and enhanced some values today to improve him.  I will spnd some time looking and making small adjustments as needed.

This has a ways to go.  I worked on the background dark, the tablecloth, and the bowls on the right as well as the window (which still needs help).  I may add a glaze of a muted blue to the tablecloth.  I may slightly darken the window frame and I will continue working on the bowls and pots.

Acrylic.  He is close to complete.  The photo is a bit washed out.  I added color washes over the white today.  I made a few passes, one color and the other with white to re-establish highlights.  When you add the color it often diminishes the value contrasts and they need to be re done.  I will study him and decide what it needs.

Continuing Watercolor (March and April 2015)

I have added more berries and more leaves.  I am working towards a variety of values as well as varied greens in the leaves.

I worked on the trees on the right side.  I did a tiny bit on the doorway to the bard (added some white dry brushing).  There are more trees to do and a little bit of finish work, but it's close.

I wet the background and dropped in the color.  This is a value study so one color only for now.  After that was dry I did the band, wetting it and applying the dark on both ends with the highlight in the middle.  I then wet her face and neck and painted in the dark values and face shapes.  I adjusted the lips a bit later.  I later wet the should on our right and did the shadows.  I put in the stripes on the shoulder on our left.  I wet her arm and added the shadows.  This is the first pass.  More darks and details and shadows will be added.

Aqueous Acrylics & Gouache (March and April 2015)

Acrylic.  I added some details around his eye (the scribbles and white highlights), I painted some value and texture on his comb and behind it (negative painting) to make it show up more.

I fixed the table perspective on the left side.  There are more values and details needed there still.  I added shadows to the bowl.  it needs highlights.

I worked on the entire white areas adding more highlights as well as some shadows and details.

Continuing Watercolor (March & April 2015)

I used white gouache to fix the front body shape of the sheep (so that it no longer looked like a cotton ball...).

I added browns and darker gray to the barn, some as a dry brush technique (for texture). I added darks, worked on the porch, added details all over, used white gouache for the snow and to add dry brush texture to the barn.  I made sharp trees (so they would come forward visually) and used white gouache to make snow on the trees.  I will do the trees on the right next class.

Aqueous Acrylic & Gouache (March and April 2015)

Acrylic.  Worked on the eye adding highlights and shadows.  Added some yellow to the red.  Added some highlights and shadows around the eye.

Acrylic. Worked on the pot and the bowl.  Remember I used white, a dark reddish brown, and a very dark reddish brown.  The values (esp. the highlights) make the pot look shiny.   I need to work on the background and fix the perspective on the table as well as work on the bowls and utensils.  

Added more white to the shirt, hat, face, and beard.  Concentrate on the lights and darks for this value study.