Hello, Wonderful People,
Today I'm going to show you the beginnings of one of my new paintings - Tiger. I know, original naming. If you have a great idea on what to name my colorful feline, let me know! But first, let me lead you through the steps:
First I laid down lots of warm colors. Maybe HOT colors! This time I added in some silver, because I want it to glow. Here you can see the beginnings of the tracery of my first marks. If you look closely, you'll see a light blue - first I drew out the entire cat with my light blue LYRA watercolor crayon. There's a good reason for this - they're erasable. Not exactly erasable, but if I squirt it with water and rub, it magically disappears. This is a good thing when you're working on proportions.
Once everything is tight, I go all around with - this time it's black - acrylic paint. You can see the beginnings up top, on the ear and top of his head. You'll note there are black lines throughout the painting already; I dug those into the acrylic paint whilst still wet.
I couldn't stop myself to take pictures, so the bottom one is far advanced. I had gone all around with black, tracing over all my crayon marks, and begun to add the complimentary crayon marks wherever I wanted. I'll generally do the eyes pretty soon into the work, because the vacuous look does not inspire me. Once I get the feeling of those eyes looking at me, the rest is just gravy. Look for my next post to see the finished piece.
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