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| Thin w/w washes of aureolin, quin. rose and cobalt blue. |
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| More of the same for the background, with a thin glaze of yellow, pink and indanthrone for shadows on the petals. |
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| Branches added - quin. burnt orange, quin. violet and indanthrone. The buds are painted with greens of aureolin, burnt orange and indanthrone. |
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| I added a thin wash of greys in the upper right. |
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| I started to go over the petal shadows with a mixture of violet and indanthrone. |
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| I am here now. It doesn't quite say what I want it to say. Do I have the guts to go in there again??? |
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| Another soon-to-be-painted portrait. This is based on one of the photos I took a couple of weeks ago of my farrier. He very kindly dressed up in his rodeo gear - horse, dog and all - and I took about 50 photos. |
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| And another start on good, old Drake. His people liked how I softened his fur in the last one - unfortunately, I scrubbed so hard, I almost went right through the paper. That's why I am doing "Drake II". I started with a loose wash of aureolin and quin. burnt orange ... |
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| ... then started in with the darks for the background. To be continued!! That's all for now. Thank you for dropping by! |
Beautiful and so delicately painted!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you are still painting Kathryn. I like to see what you have in the works. Your work is always inspiring.
ReplyDeleteWe love to visit and see what you're working on, Miss Kathryn. You are so supertalented!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving your softer approach Kathryn... those soft diffused edges are so gorgeous! :0)
ReplyDeleteLovely work!
ReplyDeleteSo many irons in the fire and everything's looking amazing ! xx
ReplyDeleteOMGosh, Kathryn. That flower is outstanding! Congratulations on a beautiful piece!!! Love it!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the portrait...very detailed...I look forward to seeing your next post on him and of course your dog is coming along beautifully. I always like your dark background as well.
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The flowers are so soft and beatiful! The portrait is great already, and looking forward to Drake II!
ReplyDeleteOf course you're going to go back in there; the painting is coming a long too great to abandon ship. Nice portrait. He brings a lot of character to the project. Sorry about the dog, but that is how the fur and paper bits fly sometimes. Life ain't perfect, that's why it's fun.
ReplyDeleteThe magnolia is lovely but it doesn't have a lot of darks to make it pop and even if you want to soften the back edges, you can still do that. I like how you are always working towards a goal and keeping busy with a lot of paintings at once!
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