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Step 21 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 With Thalo Blue look at what I've done!
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Step 20 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 With Burnt Sienna look at what I've done!
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Step 19 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 With Hooker's Green look at what I've done!
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Step 18 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 With Transparent Yellow look at what I've done!
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Step 17 Friday, August 15, 2008 With Burnt Sienna, add it to the branches as shown, they are too green. Working wet onto dry, don't feel like you have to get smooth shapes. With Sepia and with more color than water, build up the value of the darks to set the branches back behind the trunk as shown, and then work in the texture working wet onto dry and working on down the trunk of the tree. HOMEWORK: build all of your values up to match the reference photo
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Step 16 Friday, August 15, 2008 With the Thalo Blue we added a light amount to connect the edges of the building with the ivy side of the building all the way down to the bottom edge of the building as shown. Notice also that I've built up the edges of the Roof edge with Thalo Blue. Brake up the shapes of the leaves and stems of the Tulips while we have it out. With Burn Sienna, we added lightly to the left of the building and painted around the yellow dot and green dots and left some spaces open to indicate the brick building underneath the leaves, Yes, we will be adding more leaves but later. We've also broken the space up above the door and under the tree, to indicate light hitting the leaves. We've broken it up with dots, and dots under the leaves to add shadow and depth |
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Step 15 Friday, August 15, 2008 With a deeper amount of Thalo Blue break up the shapes even more, to indicate branches and leaves, let's start to define the bottom edges and top edges of the building on the left with the thalo blue. |
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Step 14 Friday, August 15, 2008 Now with a very light and wet amount of Thalo Blue quickly and lightly glaze of the door to soften the edges and please lightly and quickly or else the sepia will move too much. We've added a darker amount of Thalo at the bottom of the door to give it depth. While we have the Thalo Blue out, lets add some to the brick to give it more dimension. And now add some the the branches above, to build up the shapes of the branches and leaves |
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Step 13 Friday, August 8, 2008 We really need to break up the upper shapes, so with Transparent yellow we've broken up the shapes by adding patches of yellow to indicate bunches of leaves, also in between the branches near the trunk and under the branches and over the building. We've even added a thin amount of yellow here and there to the brick to warm it up a bit. Then with Hooker's Green, we added more branches and leaves to break up the yellow shapes we just added. Can you feel the heat of the sun? |
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Step 12 Friday, August 8, 2008 Using Hookers Green, we added leaves to the left side of the building to break up that shape, and also around the tulips that are found on the side of the building |
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Step 11 Friday, August 8, 2008 With a light amount of Burnt Sienna we added over the terra cotta pots and defined the shapes, wet onto dry even the ones on the side of the building. We also added some to the building wet onto dry to break up the shapes of the brick building. Look inside the door "well" and around the windows. I also added more to the trunk at the bottom and glazed back up the tree. |
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Step 10 Friday, August 8, 2008 To get back into the painting we added Transparent Yellow. We filled in the Tulips around the tree and the side of the brick building. We also added dots of yellow to break up the leaf and branch shapes above the building With a very light amount of Permanent Rose, we added wet onto dry a light amount on the bricks of the front and to the left, but very light, as we will be adding green leaves later, to break up that shape. We worked with a thicker amount of Burnt Sienna, and worked from the bottom of the tree trunk and worked our way up the tree. With a very light amount of Sepia, we darkened wet onto dry the brick of the house towards the bottom, increased the value towards the top of the tree trunk and worked our way down. As we worked down the tree branch we used a quick light glaze. We added a thicker amount of Sepia to fill in the window panes of the door and the shadow shapes in the windows on either side of the door. With a light amount of Sepia we also added to the shapes of the branches above the building, to break up the shapes. |
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Step 9 Friday, August 1, 2008 Now with a darker and wet amount of Burnt Sienna, working wet on DRY, we added strokes from the bottom of the tree, working up the tree to render bark, as we moved up the tree we added a darker amount of Hookers green as shown in the image to the left. |
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Step 8 Friday, August 1, 2008 Starting the the branches of the tree, I added some wet amount of burn sienna and while wet start dropping in some Hooker's Green, move quickly to the trunk of the tree with Hooker's green, and while wet start adding a thicker amount of Sepia, which will spread, and also increase the dark values that are needed. Work the Hooker's green all the way down the trunk of the tree. Then fill out the rest of the tulip plants in the pots. |
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Step 7 Friday, August 1, 2008 We went over the main part of the house again, as some of us had to define the building with the same colors. Working wet on wet, remember to start out with the wet and light amount of Burnt Siena, I added more permanent rose, and then brought it down to the pots below and also the pink tulips and pots in the windows on either side of the front door. |
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Step 6 Friday, August 1, 2008 We started the day off with a review of how we painted the "brick" of the building last week. And right after the review we painted the brick on the left hand side of the image as shown. We started with a wet amount of Burnt Siena, and then dropped some permanent rose in, and also sepia. The lower portion contained just a wet amount of Burnt Siena, which by the way we also added to the potted plants near the bottom of the building. |
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Step 5 Friday, July 25, 2008 I wet the whole brick area with a light but very wet amount of Burnt Sienna, staying away from the light areas in the "Window" areas on either side of the door and especially the door itself. I then dropped in some Hookers Green, and then Permanent Rose, and then some more Burnt Sienna if needed to warm it up. Then I added some Sepia towards the bottom area, and this was all worked while the paper was wet. Some new techniques, dropping and loading color while wet. Not waiting for an area to be dry before adding a new color! The shapes are beginning to come to life. |
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Step 5 Friday, July 25, 2008 Close up shot. |
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Step 4 Friday, July 25, 2008 Working with yellow, green, blue and sepia, I first added water onto the paper, and then started to drop in yellow, which ran where the water was painted. Then I painted with a light amount of green, and it ran too. I also added Thalo Blue to make some branch shapes, and then Sepia to add more of the branch shapes, all the colors co-mingled. Work quickly, and lightly, and keep moving from area to area vs. working in one place. Keep looking at your painting to know when to put your brush down. |
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Step 4 Friday, July 25, 2008 Close up shot |
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Step 3 Friday, July 18, 2008 Working wet on dry, add more Thalo Blue from the branch down to the shadow area under the Brick Structure. Click on the image at the left to see a larger view. |
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Step 2 Friday, July 18, 2008 Working wet on dry, add thin and wet amount of Thalo Blue, make sure to keep your edges wet so you can keep moving through the shape to keep the wash even, without a lot of watermarks or blossoms. I started from the upper left and left edge and then moved across to the right hand side. Whew, really move fast and keep your paper wet. Click on the image at the left to see a larger view. |
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Step 1 Friday, July 18, 2008 Working wet on dry, add thin and wet amount of Hooker's Green to block in the tree. Notice how I added the leaves of the tulip plant at the base of the tree, and softened the bottom edge of the tree as it moves into the "shadow". Click on the image at the left to see a larger view. |
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Reference Photo This image was taken this Spring at Filoli. This is the famed Camperdown Elm Tree that was almost killed by a disgruntled employee after learning his services were no longer needed. He cut around the base of the tree, and if he had cut a little deeper the tree would have died. You can still see the cut around the trunk of the tree. I love the shadows and the light playing and dancing around the whole image. Look down below for the 7 colors we will use to paint this image.
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These color are from
Winsor & Newton except Thalo Blue which is manufactured by
Grumbacher. Transparent Yellow series 1A Burnt Sienna Permanent Rose Hookers Green Thalo Blue Indanthrene Blue Sepia |