Welcome to the 2013 Work-A-Week Project! Thanks to all your votes and input, I've chosen the handful of pieces I'll be finishing in the upcoming weeks (with more to be completed as the year progresses.)
Many of you indicated an interest in seeing the work-in-progress photos.
My set up and supplies: A set of half-pan Winsor & Newton artist paints in an old Cotman field kit, Yarka watecolors, and palette.
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Panda making sure my supplies are all up to snuff and that I'm on task. :)
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Preliminary washes laid down: burn umber, burnt sienna, raw sienna for the background, with liberal sprinkles of salt and rubbing alcohol for texture. Sap green, viridian green, ultramarine blue, and cobalt blue for the dragon skin with drips of rubbing alcohol. Burnt Sienna, Naples yellow, and Cadmium Red were mixed in a very pale wash for the skin.
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Laying in another wash of mixed and mottled colors to intensify the background (but not *too* much,) along with adding more concentrated blues and greens for the dragon and red-violet and the *teensiest* amount of dioxazine purple for the shadows.
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Starting to work in more concentrated blues/greens/purples for the scales, shadows, claws, and horns.
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More intensity in the colors for the dragon, and laying in a few really wet washes of cadmium red and burnt sienna to up the contrast the background.
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And... the finished piece!
Prints (8x10", available in March) $12 + $6 shipping US/$10 international Original (9x12" watercolor) $250 + $10 shipping US/$18 international
Layaway or payment plans for the original painting are available.
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