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| After transferring the drawing and applying the masking and waiting for it to dry (see previous blog post) - I wet the paper and using the photo as a guide I dropped in color. I used Ultramarine blue, permanent rose, cool yellow (lemon yellow or aureolin will work fine), and viridian. I used these colors and their mixtures. The wet paper allowed the colors to have soft edges and to intermingle a little. |
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| This painting started with some sort of textured or colored background. For mine I chose plastic wrap to create texture and red and blue for the color. I wet the paper, dropped in the color, and laid the plastic wrap on while it was wet, scrunching it a bit. I allowed it to dry. The I mixed a dark (I used brown and blue for the dark) and used it to start painting the rooster's feathers. I dropped a little blue into the wet dark paint. I added a little watered down dark to his beak as well. |
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| Rubber cement resist and sponging texture sample. The top right corner is a sponging and the left side is rubber cement (which needs more layers). I dribbled rubber cement, let it dry, and did a wash of light yellow. After it was dry I added more rubber cement. The next step is another wash of color which I will do next class. |
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| Salt, wax paper, plastic wrap texture samples. I wet the paper, dropped in color, and laid down plastic wrap on the right, wax paper on the bottom left, and salt on the top left. The wax paper usually needs a book on top. The salt goes on when the paper is still shiny, but not puddles. |