paintings

I finished the fox on the shutters. I love this bolder gradient so much, I want to rework the other three animals now. The fox’s legs and face blend into the brown background right now, but when I paint the background dark gray it should look amazing. I’m using Liquitex Read more…

Only 15-20 minutes work tonight on the shutters, mainly small details. Made sure all the gold was thick and not streaky. Same with the orange dots everywhere. I added red to the diamond dots on the deer panel. the details make sure the piece looks really unified. Still a few Read more…

Another 45 minutes done. First layer of gold for the fox’s diamonds. Another layer of gold elsewhere where it was patchy (the paint is semi-transparent). Mainly, I deepened the blue shadow regions in the deer. Looking at the photo now, I think the whole background needs to be much darker Read more…

Today was the first day in months that I worked on the shutters. It’s so hot that I could only work for about 45 minutes. As I go further, the changes are less obvious. I started the diamonds behind the fox and his first layer of color in his eye. Read more…