I did a light blue wash to tone down the purple lines. Then I added light blue highlights. Did a slight blue wash over those to darken them slightly. Used a white wash to add broad highlights on the neck and face to pop out the main form more. Then added more highlights and some pinks, also added some purple blue into the shadows and drew on scales. Last I added blue to the eye.
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I have yet to get the grisaille approach to work in acrylics so if you don't mind I have some questions.
Do you mostly use transparent washes over your opaque underpainting or is it mostly opaque on top as well?
Do you try to match the values/tones in the underpainting?
How thick or thin do you work with your washes?
Do you use any medium aside from water?
Thanks for posting, been loving the paintings and sketches. Which reminds me I have a lot of stuff I should be scanning. :X
It's great to see live paintings, now that all the artists have gone digital... keep it up! :)
And, by the way, I LOVE the "Lost Fox"!!!
Do you mostly use transparent washes over your opaque underpainting or is it mostly opaque on top as well?
Mostly transparent washes. Sometimes I'll thicken it in areas if something is standing out in a way I don't like. Generally I'm using the washes to bring the colors I paint opaque into the same family of color because I stink at actually picking the correct color.
Do you try to match the values/tones in the underpainting?
Not really. The washes are used to make the painting push towards the general color and value set I'm looking for. That can be anything. I want brown and purple on the fox painting because I wanted a dark jungle and I wanted a color set that would allow greens and oranges to pop out easily. On the blue dragon I started brown because I didn't know what I wanted. Then as i figured it out I began adding light blue and white washes to push everything towards those colors. I'm trying to do a light painting, since the first two I've tried have been so dang dark. I want to make sure I' m not sticking to dark because it's easier or something.
How thick or thin do you work with your washes?
Depends on the paint color and brand for one. White is crazy thick, but the brown I've been using is really thin to start with. I tend to add enough water to make the paint slightly less runny than water. I mostly apply the washes with sponges. I get the sponge wet in water first then ring it out. Then I lightly dip it on the paint just to get paint on the surface of the sponge. If the sponge absorbs the paint there tends to be too much. I apply the wash really quickly because I want to see if I need to remove any before the wash dries. I do a lot of apply and remove. Removing doesn't mean I'm taking off all the wash, just rubbing away some of it. There will always be a little left which I usually think is desirable.
Do you use any medium aside from water?
Paint! Nope, just water so far. The way I'm painting right now is new to me. So I haven't broken out into using other things yet.
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