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Author: Jason_Morgan, Contributing Editor
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Preparing the canvas etc has been covered extensively in other articles, so lets jump straight in with the oil paints. The canvas has been given a light tone (burnt Sienna) to work on top of, I have lightly drawn in the basic structure of the cat, including the spots. I then began to paint in the very dark areas. A snow leopard has LOTS of spots and it is these spots that really create the shape of the face and body, so as you can imagine it is essential to get their shape and placement correct, right at the start, and that is why I like to put them in now. |
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It can certainly become tedious to draw all those spots, then paint them, and it is easy to start cutting corners and just dab them in and that is when mistakes happen. So if I need a change of scenery, so to speak, I might paint in the base coat for the eyes, as I have here. It's nice to have company when you are painting for many hours, and now the eyes are in the cat already has life and personality! |
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It looks like I have taken a massive leap forward here (next page), but the face was blocked in after just 1 - 2 hours of painting. Not all paintings develop this quickly, but here I am using mainly opaque colours, so they cover the canvas very quickly, plus big paintings demand big brushes, at least in these early stages. I don't like to give colour formulations in my demos as I don't want people to get in to a paint by numbers type of mind set. Colour to me is very intuitive, I just go by feel. I start by thinking "what is the main colour in this area? hm... grey, but a brown/grey" so I would take some Ultramarine blue, add some Burnt Umber and perhaps a little Lamp Black, then adjust the mix by adding Titanium White, if it need it to be a bit more brown coloured then I would add more Burnt Umber etc. |
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