day 3

I finally got to the trees and the horizon line. I wanted golden hour sunset colors–the end of a beautiful day: yellow orange (semi-translucent), quinacridone red, a mix of quinacridone magenta and permanent magenta, violet, perylene green violet & maroon, gold ochre, quinacridone gold, winsor blue-red tone, and I think that about covers what colors I used on day 3.

Everything is still all watercolor–no other medium yet. As I deepen the values and find “black,” I already see places I could lighten with gouache. I love having such versatile paints.

Next step: tightening the foreground. That means people.

Advertisement

About Christine Stephens

I'm a self-taught painter with a big summer project. The Pie Town Scroll is 5 feet by 30 feet and made of Russell Lee's 1940 photos.
This entry was posted in in process. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s