Fall 2016 Acrylic Class Week 4

Acrylic Class Project: Windblown Final Week

This final week I added more detail by adding more branches and twigs both light and dark and adding more highlight to the tree trunks. I also added more grasses around the bottoms of the trees to seat them into the grass.

Using my flat sable brush I was able to pull up clumps of grasses around the base of the tree and over the roots using the dry brush technique (little paint or water on the brush). I added both light and darker grasses with the dry brush, then I switched to my liner brush and pulled up some longer grasses (light and dark) remembering to bend them to match the bend of the trees to help create the effect of being windblown.



Pumpkins on Parade

I am working on a black canvas this time. I used black gesso on a regular stretched canvas, you can also buy black canvases at the store.

Using white chalk, I sketched in my pumpkins. If I need to change anything I don't like I can take a wet paper towel and wipe it off and redo my sketch.

I was using a #6 flat bristle brush to start the under painting for the pumpkins.

The orange pumpkins were under painted using burnt sienna with a touch of orange in the lighter areas them mixing wet into wet as I moved into the shadowed areas I added ultramarine blue to the sienna and finally in the darker areas I also added the blue with alizarin crimson instead of purple (I was out)

The blue pumpkin I used pthalo blue instead of ultramarine blue, and a little touch of orange to dull it and white to lighten it. then added more pthalo blue and burnt umber (sienna will work) as I moved to the shadows  and also a bit of the alizarin. The bumps will come later.

The light small pumpkin was shades of grey blue using my ultramarine blue and sienna to make a gray, more white to make it lighter and more blue and alizarin for the darker colors. 

Remember that this is only the under painting, this is where we start and your under painting should be in the mid tone range so you can go darker or lighter as you progress to the finished painting. Do not try to finish as you go or your painting will look flat not round.

This painting is going to go faster this time so I am sure that you have enough information so you can finish it up if we don't have enough time until the end of the semester.

Keep painting and I will see you in class.