I had the beginnings of an idea for this full sized sheet (22" x 30") painting of crows when I went to Deb's last Thursday. After some discussion about what I was thinking, this is what I started with. I want the shadows of the crows to be primary colors (or very close to just pure primaries without being pure color) = one crow shadow will be the blue + red leaning to blue; one crow shadow will be the red + yellow leaning to yellow; and one crow shadow will be the red + blue leaning to red. Just 3 primary colors of red, blue and yellow for this painting.
Primarily Crows
On Saunders Waterford full sheet (22" x 30") 140# cold press paper.
It may work. It may not. I'll keep going and we'll see what happens. The crows will be "black" mixed with the 3 primary colors and nothing else. I'm putting the shadows in first.
Primarily Crows
On Saunders Waterford full sheet (22" x 30") 140# cold press paper.
It may work. It may not. I'll keep going and we'll see what happens. The crows will be "black" mixed with the 3 primary colors and nothing else. I'm putting the shadows in first.
7 comments:
This is a neat idea and the colours of the shadows will work beautifully.
Hmmm, looks interesting!
I think this will be great.
Thanks, Jeanette, Carol and Hallie. I'll be working on it and another painting at the same time - the wet-in-wet on this Saunders Waterford paper really leaves the paper damp for a long time so it's good to have another to work on while this one dries.
I admire all this planning before the actually painting, it will surely be great.
Thanks, Jane, I hope you are right. I always plan things out although I don't talk about the planning much. If I just go and put paint on paper, it never turns into anything but a mess! I admire those who can paint more intuitively but I'm not one of them.
I'm looking forward to seeing where this piece takes you. It's good to plan but I also think your intuition leads you as the piece begins to build and it talks to you.
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