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Painting Process #2-Autumn Night

17 Monday Sep 2012

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Last night was a rare thing. I actually had some free time! I decided to use it to the fullest and work on a painting.

I have a thing for painting and drawing trees and since autumn themed everything seems to be in full gear, I thought an autumn tree watercolor would be nice to paint.

I started out with just a blue wash for the background, but after looking at it for awhile, I threw some purple in there to give it more life. Image

After waiting forever for it to dry (I always add way too much water and paint) I started on the moon. I kept noticing that the paint was acting weird. I thought at first that it was just old (I hadn’t done a painting in awhile where I needed white paint) so I tried thinning it with more water. The more water I used, the weirder it got. I looked at the bottle and realized it wasn’t watercolor paint, but acrylic. Awesome. No freaking wonder it was being weird. Image

Luckily, it turned out to be ok. Next I started on the tree. I just used a basic brown, nothing fancy. After the tree limbs and trunk was painted, I decided to paint the land underneath it. i probably should’ve done that first, but hey I don’t have a brain! Image

It was then time for the leaves! I have a very rough, old brush that I like to use to paint leaves. It gives it a kind of stubbly effect. I didn’t mix the crimson, vermillion, and gold paint but instead poured them side by side on my paper paint holder and just kept dabbing the brush into all three colors until they mixed themselves into the brush. I then dabbed the brush all over the top of the tree. Image

It still looked like it needed something a little more autumn-ish. I added a tiny little pumpkin at the base of the tree. I didn’t think to wait until the background had dried some and ended up repainting the pumpkin twice. Image

And my painting was complete! I was going to add stars, but I think it didn’t need them. Image

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Painting Process 1–“Parrot”

19 Thursday Jul 2012

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I like to log the progress of my paintings using photos and such whenever I can. I feel that going back to see what I did first and how I did it could possibly be used to further my skill. So I decided that I’m going to use this blog to not only document my life as an artist, but to also show my process.

Lately I’ve been seeing parrots everywhere (especially in the ads for the beach I go to) and thought I’d try doing a thirty minute watercolor of one.

So I did what everyone else does and Googled a picture of a parrot for my source image. I chose this one. Image

Credit goes to this site where I found it: http://www.fatherlyadviceandrants.com/the-parrot-and-the-freezer.html

I then started with a basic, light blue wash. Image

I started with the beak, since it seemed going from left to right would be the easiest thing to do.Image

Then I went on to some more painting…Image

I started to add some of the little details. I try to add the minute stuff last, but that usually doesn’t happen. Image

The best part was painting the wings. My paintings usually only consist of a few colors and are normally very dark. This colorful work was very different from what I usually do. Image

And after about twenty minutes, I had a finished parrot! I know the picture is really light. My scanner is an ancient brick. I also apologize for the dry read. I tried to be brief and just include the photos. Image

To see more of my work, you can check out my art page at: https://www.facebook.com/LindsHuss

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