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| First I wet the red pepper (except the highlights), mixed a cool red and warm red (pyrrol scarlet and quin rose), and painted the pepper. Then I wet the yellow pepper (except the highlights) and painted it yellow (a mixture of a cool yellow and a warm yellow). While it was still wet I dropped in some red (red pepper mixture) and some green (the green was a mixture of pthalo and quin gold). You can also do this in 3 steps - Wet, paint yellow, let it dry. Wet, drop in red, let it dry. Wet, drop in green, let it dry. |
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| Next, I wet the green pepper (except the highlights) and painted it green (same green mixture as above). I added yellow green to the lighter areas and blue green to the dark areas. I added some red (same red as above) in the dark areas and around the stem. After the peppers were dry I wet the background. I mixed a gray with the three primaries ( I mixed several grays and used them all). Remember the color wheel and the color opposite on the color wheel neutralizes that color (example - green neutralizes red). Also remember if you lean a color towards red or yellow it will look brown and if you lean it towards blue it will look gray. After mixing the gray I wet the background again and started painting the background gray. Then, near the top, I touched the background with a wet brush and created blossoms. At the bottom I used a dry brush to life color. |
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| This is the masking. |
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| This is after the first pour. I used red, yellow green and purple (I do not know what colors I used as these were premixed long ago). To pour, wet the paper (I do this with a spray bottle), pour the paint, shake and tip the paper to get the paint to move. You can also add color with a dropper/pipette. |
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| I did a little more masking. I poured a second time with blue, red, purple, and yellow green. It also has a little rain texture added on the trip in the pouring rain to the car as well as a few blooms from the rain water. |