There are SO many ways to start a painting. This video shows me doing the background first by dropping color onto wet paper. The main subject, a bird, was kept dry so that the colors wouldn't drift onto that area of the painting.
When this painting was almost dry, I spritzed a little water on it to create texture in the background...
Here's the image for this second demonstration:
Here's another example of a first wash...
And a note about the importance of letting your painting completely dry between layers.
Really enjoying the lessons! Looking forward to seeing how you paint the black fur, as that's a problem for me. Dee
ReplyDeleteI will be posting that too! I'm out of town right now but Once gotten the bird done and will new posting all those videos soon.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, can tell I used my droid to post that last one lol!
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