Today's piece was my entry for the de kahon art fair at the collective. Did this artwork in 4 days. (Monday-Thursday) then submitted it on Friday just in time for the show on Saturday!
I already have an idea in my mind. I just sketched it first and draw it in my computer. I did this to get the values first. When I'm happy with the composition I tried to add colors and experiment. (I used photoshop to add the shadows and colors for the study, since I don't have enough time to do this traditionally, thank you photoshop! :) changing colors is just a click away!)
Step 1: Wash
Used the wet on wet technique. I used yellows and some greens as base colors to give a warm tone to the artwork. As you can see the paper is very wet, I love how the colors bleed. After this I left the painting to dry.
step 2: Fill in the base colors
When the paper is dry I started filling in the rest of the colors. I checked my study in photoshop for the color palette and started painting. These are just base colors. Note: Used light colors for the base then started building up the colors with darker tones.
Step 3: Adding foreground and overlaying colors
After the base colors are dry, the next step is to add the foreground and to slowly build the colors by adding color overlays.
FOREGROUND: I added bushes and trees for the foreground. This also helps me frame the piece and lead the viewer's eyes to the subject.
OVERLAYS: I used darker shades of greens to build up the colors of the bushes. I used my liner brush for the leaves. These are applied using the dry on dry technique.
Step 4: Adding details
Used the liner brush and watercolor pencils to add the details. This took a while maybe around two sessions for the details alone. At this stage the image starts to come alive. Adding the shadows and highlights really made the arwork pop! :)
Step 5: Final Artwork
After this I gave myself a pat on the back and went to sleep! :) Thank you for reading this tut. Comments & suggestions are very much appreciated.
