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!

En kop kaffe, tak

While a lot of my time is consumed with my oil commission, I find time in between drying and worrying about drying times and varnishes to paint other things. This is a painting on acrylic paper for my friend Ian’s bistro Bite Me

I’m trying to make it vaguely look as though it were an acrylic version of an aux trois crayons drawing, so I’m using a restricted palette of burnt sienna, ultramarine, alizarin crimson and white.

To create some interesting texture, I first sketched the outlined of the cup in thick white paint, which resists a later wash of Burnt Sienna, and has a little texture to drybrush over if I want.