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| I transferred the drawing onto the paper using graphite paper. Make sure it is fairly dark. I then wet the background and over the leaves and branches (no water on the flower). I mixed a grey and a green and also used some yellow and orange. I dropped the color and guided it on the paper. When the paper was still wet, shiny, no puddles, I added salt (you can use different kinds and sizes). |
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| I dampened the flower and used a permanent/quinacridone rose with a tiny bit of blue mixed in. I then painted the petals paying attention to the values, the lights and darks. This is the first pass, there will be another. Next I painted a leaf with a dark green I mixed and ran some yellow down the middle and on the sides. I also painted a branch with a mixed brown, I painted the branch dark on the left and ran alongside on the right with a clean, damp paintbrush. |
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| I transferred the drawing onto the paper using graphite paper. Make sure it is fairly dark. I used masking fluid on parts of the wolf to retain some of the white hair texture and on the eye to keep it clean, I also did the eyelashes. Make the lines with masking as thin as you can. I then wet the entire paper, front and back after the masking was dry. I mixed a green and dropped it on the background. I mixed some grey, one more brown and one more blue (burnt sienna mixed with either indigo or Prussian or ultramarine blue does well). I then painted the wolf going in the direction of his hair. I mixed a black (with a blue and brown) and painted the nose and around the eye. I painted burnt sienna on the face and on an ear. |