Monday, June 11, 2007

Cherries - Step-by-Step Demo

 

Step Three

Step Two

Step One

"Cherries" This is a step-by-step demo

5” x 7” (12.7cm x 17.8cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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This work shows a step-by-step demo of the painting process. I began this work late Sunday evening and didn't have time to finish, so continued to work on it and post the results as I completed it. You can see the ground colors still showing under the foreground and around the cherries in Step 2. Some of the white Conte drawing also still shows at the edges and I still wanted to work on modeling and reflections on the cherries.

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1 - Do you mind sharing how you get that beautiful deep ground color? This comment was posted by Judy but I accidently deleted it while trying to answer. Paul In this case I mixed the color with acrylic paint and painted it directly on the unsized board without applying gesso. Since acrylic paint is 100% acrylic it functions as the gesso and gives me a deep color ground to work on. The only problem is it needs several coats of this color to completely cover the board. The colors I used for the top were ultramarine blue mixed with napthol red. If the saturation was too strong I neutralized it with a bit of permanent green. (Comment this)

Written by: Paul Wolber at 2007/06/11 - 10:36:37
2 - Hi Paul, This painting is just beautiful! I enjoy all of your paintings, this one is outstanding! Linda McCoy (Comment this)

Written by: Linda McCoy at 2007/06/12 - 11:00:40
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