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| I glazed the background with a muted purple (I used ultramarine blue, quin rose and quin gold). I will finish this with more darks and details. It still needs work, the detail work I showed you on the rooster. |
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| This is how the rooster looked last week after class. |
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| This is how the rooster looks after some of the finishing detail work I do on paintings towards the end. I focused on the head area adding lights, darks, and details. This part is drawing with watercolor. I will do a bit more before being done. I also showed you how to use white gouache on this one. But remember, some of you will not be detail oriented and could stop earlier than I will. I do the detail because I enjoy it and like how it looks. But it is not always necessary. |
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| I worked on the beard and hair with a gray watercolor and white gouache. I worked on the scarf, the shirt, and glasses and the hat. On the scarf I put in shadows and then later glazed it with purple. On the hat I put in the shadows and then later started putting in the plaid. Overall this needs more darks and details. |
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| I started this by wetting everything except the flower. I mixed several greens and dropped them in. I kept lifting the light areas on the leaves with a watercolor brush (that was dried on my towel). I also dropped in some red. I let this dry. Then I made the greens darker and mixed a dark background color. I started putting the dark into the background (for demonstration purposes I did not finish the background). I then started working on leaves adding darks. After things dried a bit I worked on the flower. I wet the big dark petal and used a mix of my warm and cool reds (quin rose and pyrrole scarlet). I dropped that in and then added some quin gold. I used the mix of reds at various strengths (changed with water) on the flower petals. I used a yellow green at the base of the flower. I will add dakrs and details all over this painting as needed to finish. |