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Reference photo for the June 2009 class -"Trumpets and Teddy".  We'll do a portrait format for the painting.

 

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Tonal drawing to see if composition works - will rely on the final crop of the finished painting

 

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Outline drawing, masking fluid has been removed after these first washes

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Mid tones, letting warm and cool colours merge

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Rewetting paper and applying more darks.  Looking for 'lost' edges.

Background dark painted in one pass to retain transparency

Tablecloth shadows and background colour- cross angles in the composition 

A bright colour chosen for dungarees with pattern dropped in while wet

 

A few more darks, bright buttons, croppped, signed and matted - "Trumpets and a Teddy"

(now in the collection of Kerry Leigh)

Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 August 2010 )