"Waitin' on the Coffee" finished! Yee-ha!

[Roger Evans]

Originally Posted by Phantelope

thanks Roger! I just pulled out a ref picture I wanted to paint for years....

Oliver

I hope I was helpful. One other thing- I keep a small canvas on a stand next to my easel to work off excess paint or to test the saturation of the brush before application to the main canvas. I do no wet mixing of colors on my canvas. Everything is pretty much layed in as a wash or drybrush but, because you are trying to preserve the texture underneath it is important to be sure of the effect your wash or drybrush is going to have so I always have areas on my test canvas that mimic what I am doing on the main canvas. It helps me to work more confidently, though I often still screw up. On the WIP I mentioned that I messed up the canvas area where the face is because I was laying in the streaks of the sky and I got distracted by a phone call from a client. By the time I returned, the paint had dried into a rough area not ideal for painting fine detail on. I worked around it and it came out okay but made a difficult job harder than it needed to be.

Good luck!

[gurleygirl]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!
Tracey

[Charlie's Mum]

Just checked all of your links on my monitor Roger - all good, all the same!

The fire intensity is exactly what I'm trying to achieve in a painting - not of a fire, but the brightness of the pale yellows - now, if I could just lift them out and stick them to my canvas ..............

[objectivistartist]

[it's called "cribbing" Maureen]

[Charlie's Mum]

Originally Posted by objectivistartist

[it's called "cribbing" Maureen]

Haha! Only if I use it for a fire; otherwise, it'd be a collage