This is where I transferred the sketch
to illustration board. This is called the
underpainting stage where you establish values of light
and dark. On larger paintings I will do this in oil
or acrylic, in raw umber, violet, or black, but on smaller
works like this will use pencil. I added some color
to the eye in photoshop to see how it might look later on.
Added the landscape, the tree, and some
other birds in the air which I didn't like at all and took
back out after this scan. I liked that area looking
completely bleak.
This is after the first wash of burnt
umber which gives me a nice midtone to work on.
The stormy sky has been painted in.
10/30/05
(Davy's Grey, Mars Black, Zinc White)
Here we go again! The last one
died for lack of gesso and so I am starting over.
Here is the new one 11/8/05.
