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Author: John_Lovett, Contributing Editor
 | Step 4 - Add some Darks A dark strip for the open door and a dark rectangular window give the design a bit more strength. The areas of shadow are also strengthened at this stage. Introducing some strong green foliage (Quinacridone Gold, Burnt Sienna and Phthalo Blue) puts a little more life into the painting. Apply the foliage very roughly and loosely and vary the color and tone slightly. Once the foliage dries, splash on some pure alizarin to suggest flowers |
 | Step 5 - More Color and Detail Burnt Sienna and Quinacridone gold bricks are added to the left hand wall with the 1/4" flat brush The scalloped decoration can be drawn in with your brown pastel pencil and cut around with a wash of cool dark gray (Ultramarine Blue and Burnt Sienna). Splash some more red (I used Scarlet lake) into the area of the flowers then let everything dry. Use your pen and Ink to draw some fine lines around some of the details. As you apply the ink, quickly spray it with a fine mist of water to keep it from becoming too hard and sharp. |
 | Step 6 - Attack with Gesso By this stage your painting should be starting to look fairly interesting. Here the easy option would be to tidy up a few details and call it finished; however, fracturing the surface and obliterating some of the detail will give the work much more mystery and interest. The Gesso is applied with an old 2" bristle brush. The idea is to break up some of the strong lines and allow a small, focused area of detail to emerge. I chose to push the top left and bottom right hand corners back allowing a diagonal band of detail to dominate. The Gesso is applied straight from the tin then broken down gradually with a clean wet 2" brush. Once dry the liner brush and gray pastel pencil can be used to coax just a little detail from the lost areas. The contrast between these loosely drawn areas and the band of detail make the work much more interesting and leave the viewer to mentally fill in what has been left out. |
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| John Lovett is an Australian artist working in Watercolor, Oils and Mixed media. He has held over 30 solo exhibitions and has been involved in numerous mixed exhibitions in various countries. | |
| E-Mail: info@johnlovett.com Web Site: http://www.johnlovett.com | |
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