Tuesday Morning Class

Watercolor and gouache on masonite primed with Kilz 2 and prepped with Absorbent Ground.

Continuing Watercolor (November/December 2013)

I continued work on the lizard adding color, light values, and dark values and creating texture with salt (add salt when the paper is still shiny but not a puddle).  I added a little detail to the background and shadows to the rocks.  I then worked on adding detail, shadows, and texture to the lizard.  It needs a little more work, but it's close.

Continuing Watercolor (November/December 2013)

I have been working on the background adding dark shapes, sharpening up edges, working on details on the berries and leaves, etc.

I have added a light area back in (with gouache and watercolor) and added a few more details on some berries.

I have added color to the left of the car by the trunk.

I have added more color and a whole lot of details and values.  I have been sharpening up the edges and making choices about darks and lights to create contrast in the painting (so that the car pops forward visually).

This started with the blue/green (pthalo green and pthalo) background.  I wet the paper and dropped in the color working wet-n-wet.  _ used Oxide of Chromium mixed with aueolin for the cactus shapes.  After that dried I wet the bottom background and put in a yellow color (burnt sienna and aureolin mixture) as well as a little red and blue gray and then I used sanding (watercolor pencils and sand paper).  Then I worked on the lizard adding the blue/green (pthalo green and pthalo blue) and gray (pthalo blue, pthalo green, alizarin, van dyke brown), dropping in some of the yellow background color and then adding salt for texture.  Pay attention to the shadows on the lizard.

Photos for class

Continuing Watercolor (November/December 2013)

I have added a few leaves in the back and will ad even more as I go making the background mostly medium and dark shades. 

I wet and dropped in color on the trunk (sienna brown and cerulean).  While still wet I 'sanded' in some texture using sand paper and watercolor pencils.  I wet the roof, dropped in color, and added salt while it was still wet but not a puddle (indigo, cerulean, sienna, and a little viridian).  Next I mixed a dark brown (try sienna and indigo) and added the darks in the windshield.  I varied the value of these darks and added a little red in some areas.  I darkened the background a little on the right side.  I will most likely do a little more of that next class to 'pop' the truck forward.