Here’s the next installment of “Wanderlust" progress shots for my solo show "Aurora" at Thinkspace Gallery LA. Hope some of you find it useful.
With the lines blocked in, I dived into the green areas and particularly the dark areas. I can’t work further without establishing some of the lower tones, and because pencil wasn’t dark enough, I used ink-micron pens. If I don’t establish the dark areas, it’s easy to make the light areas too dark in comparison. Having a good range of tones is crucial for colour as well, because colour is closely linked to the tone.
For the leaves, vines, grass and stone pillar, I used a combination of layering acrylic, crushed pastels and liquitex iridescent medium. I then work over it using coloured pencils.
For the light areas I used iridescent white paint and crushed pastels.
I’m just experimenting and laying the foundation colours for the piece, balancing the warms and cools, and building texture with a lot of hatching and cross hatching, etc.
Thanks for looking! More coming soon.