Watercolor Escape Artists

Ink your pencil tracing - except for the white areas you marked with a "W" first! Give the SKY a middle blue & let it dry, then go over everything else (except the whites) with a golden-tan. Let it dry. Mix up a batch of red-brown and paint your rocks and the ground around the grass-clumps. Start to green-up your trees with a middle tone. Complete your middle-greens in the trees & grass-clumps saving some of that sunny-tone for ready-made highlights. Give the grass-clumps and trees some dimension by adding deeper greens, using directional 'leaf-shaped' strokes for the grass. Make rich shadow-colors by adding compliments (opposites on the color wheel - and in your paintbox, instead of plain old black) Finishing steps: deepen sky tones, deepen rock/dirt tones, add shadows coming from grass-clumps and on 'left sides' of rock formations. Put some 'texture' on the ground and rocks using the smallest amount of rock-shadow tone and a small brush. Boos...

Step away from your pencils...if you're putting 'transfer-graphite' on the back of your homework drawing that is. Our new paper isn't paper at all, but Yupo's 100% polypropylene! Why didn't I realize this sooner: it's so translucent we can TRACE RIGHT THROUGH IT. That's the good news. Bad news is our normally SUPER pens are not quite waterproof on it, but more good news is I have some India Ink which is, so...I get to do all 12 (!!!) ink-drawings for you. I expect, um, well, dark chocolate is always appropriate. Just kidding. Here's 'stage 1' of about 3 stages. We can't work too soupy on this surface, as it takes a bit longer to dry. If either assistant is reading this - could you bring hairdryers, too? In our first stage we'll cover our entire painting in it's Mid-tones. Sort of like below. Then stage 2'll be some darker/richer tones, followed by stage 3's lighter/brighter tones and final highlights and deepest darks. I...

Miss Lee has taken the challenge (and met it admirably). Will you? Eight Altoid boxes await your brush (see Mrs. L's attempt at #s 5-8 later in this post). Miss Breeding has completed two versions of the same challenge: on the right one that's more soft and subtle; note in the one on the left the character that the ink lines add. Well done, K. Mrs. L (your blog writer) took a stab at the second set-of-four before passing them out in the last class. QUOTE "This is not nearly as easy as I thought it would be!" and "When in doubt, ink it."

copyright 2009 Patrice Stanton Getting Started: http://www.wholebrainarts.com/PaintingVideos/GettingStarted.AVI Inking the Drawing: http://www.wholebrainarts.com/PaintingVideos/InkingtheDrawing.AVI Start Painting - Sky & Foreground: http://www.wholebrainarts.com/PaintingVideos/StartPainting_SkyForeground.AVI Finish your Base/Middle tones: http://www.wholebrainarts.com/PaintingVideos/FinishBasetonesplusplusplus.AVI Finish Mudcracks & Start Trees: http://www.wholebrainarts.com/PaintingVideos/FinishMudcracksstartTrees.AVI FINISHED PAINTING! http://www.wholebrainarts.com/PaintingVideos/FinishedPainting_sep_17_09.AVI