Thursday, April 9, 2009

Adobe House, the saga continues

Abobe House, stage three

Up bright and surly this morning to work on the painting and get other tasks done before the need to run and find electric fencing supplies to finish the pasture fence at my mother's old pasture.
I glazed and defined more of the shadow areas with my favorite shadow mixture of burnt umber and ultramarine blue and lots of Liquin. Then back into the foliage of the trees to add better midtones and some highlights on the leaves. More color washes on the grass and a bit of color change happening on the two horses in the foreground. I know the front horse is a brighter chestnut than the one beside her, although the reference photos showed Missy darker and Ginger lighter, so I am adjusting their coat as I go along. Rather like shedding out for spring!
Now let this dry and try not to monkey with it until it does. There are times to paint into the "soup" ( I forget which artist used to call it that) and times to leave it to dry and glaze and scumble.

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