Working in dry media first... a color map sketch with color pencils to decide my palette.
Now my “coloring book” stage. Applying flat washes in local color. Decided to use yellow as an under layer for the grass
Starting to figure out more about my composition as I get to this stage...such as my strategies for showing space both physically and emotionally in my subject matters. I am taking notes about it in my sketchbook laying nearby. I added the faintest of washes in the background to change the spatial feel of the entire composition. I washed my brush out twice to get that faintest of Payne’s Gray wash in the background.
Using size and spacing of my green grass blobs over the yellow to begin that definition of space...
Now I add in either a stronger pigment or darker the flat first color to add depth.
So finished for today. As I am running around doing those exciting domestic things like laundry, paying bills, walking the dogs and cooking, in the back of my mind I will be kicking around the techniques and strategies I came up with today and yesterday as I created these
Which will help me make the next big decision, what media to work with. To stay with watercolors or move to acrylic and/or oils....
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