Last week I started on another still life painting. I was inspired on a new technique to shift in a different direction in the way I paint. I wanted to expose more of my brush strokes in my painting. I am still learning how to paint more in a impressionistic style with the use of broken color. I took an old soft pastel painting I did and changed the back ground color.to more of an aqua blue. I did not use a palette knife, instead I only used a flat brush and a liner brush for details.
In the first stage I diluted brown wash of acrylic to tone the paper. The paper is a Canson mixed media. I used a flat brush to produce the line drawing of the forms. I also establish the shadow maps for the dark values to be blocked in later.
In stage two I continued to use a flat brush however a had more brown paint than water in the mixed to get a darker value for the shadow zones. Also I establish the highlight zones by allowing the lightest value to be left exposed. At this stage not only a dark value is blocked in but also a middle value is blocked.
In stage three I premixed my paint into 4 groups blues, reds, greens, and light values of brown. I always use a palette knife to mixed my color out. I'am using glass to mix my colors on and lay out.
Stage four I started to add color to the background using the blue values I had premixed earlier.
Finally I added more color the values of green red and browns.
"Pair & Apple © DWeaver Art are completed done in acrylic 6 x 6 on mixed media Canson paper.
