Skulltopus

So here’s what I did today while wrangling with my phone provider. It’s watercolour over a biro sketch, by the way.

Rose

4B pencil on acrylic paper. I think this one’s going to be in my portfolio. I’m happy with a lot of the initial line work

Further along the line.

En kop kaffe, tak II

In this image, I have made highlights and more texture with pure white paint. In the Aux Trois Crayons technique, this would be known as ‘heightening’, since white highlights have a tendency to make a shape appear more 3d. Anyway, this white is far too stark for my liking.

Here, I’ve used a glaze of Burnt Sienna to knock back the white. This is one of acrylic paint’s great advantages – drying times and easy dilution. This would have hardly been possible with oils.

I think this painting is pretty much done now, so I’m going to leave it for a few days and see what I think later in the week. Then, it’s off to the Bistro!

The Tower Part II

This is the start of the painting I have done of the Tower. Starting from a base coat of Lemon Yellow, then worked a little Coeruleum and a darker yellow into the lemon yellow, to make it a greenish-gold. I then worked up the dark masses with a mix of ochre and burnt umber, and darkened them further with a dash of Ultramarine. I worked white into where the sky and water will be, but I’m leaving them vague until the next layer. Given the drying rates of this paint, that might be a week or so; in the meantime I may start other projects.