| www.cheapjoes.com -- Welcome to Artist Palette Productions at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff I'm going to scoop this paint up and clean my palette. Then I'm going to start that banding process. I've got the greens out but I'll need to mix some more black up. That sky looks pretty dark, I may lighten that up after it dries. Just like this tree mass, if I can do more layers rather than fewer layers it will make that shape more interesting. The mixed black is the base for those greens so we want to make sure we have enough. I'm going to start with my coolest green which is going to be a combination of my mixed black, my fallow blue, a little bit of white and a touch of that cad lemon. I'm actually using our sky color to mix into that green because I want to keep it nice and cool. I'm going to hold it up to the painting and see if I have the right value. It's about the color of the tree mass but a darker value so that's going to jump us across the water. I've just got to trust my own fishing time on the water more than the photograph here I think. In order to see this better I'm going to take that mixed green from before and warm it up just a touch. Take that same brush and make small little bands. What I'm doing is beginning to find the way this goes. I'm using much smaller strokes and more paint. You can really see I'm spending a lot more time mixing the right color for each of these. I'm mixing a color for a wedge and then in a creative and descriptive way I'm going to put the ... |
