From the course: Painting Foundations: Light and the Landscape
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Painting the gondola
From the course: Painting Foundations: Light and the Landscape
Painting the gondola
- So, now we're going to introduce the Ultramarine Blue into our palette, and this will extend the color palette and work in contrast to all the nice warm tones we've already established. By introducing the Ultramarine Blue to the gondola, it will separate it out slightly from the rest of the painting, giving us that stronger sense of blue on that front, main object that we're looking at, but it will also, by having that blue in the foreground, balance better with the cooler tones we've already got established in the sky. So when you're tweaking the drawing, you're half working between the shapes around the outside and also the shapes on the inside of this object, so you can just work between two brushes so you get that nice movement, that S-shape that we talked about before. And then the sunlight's coming through, hitting the edge here. You've got this lovely color that we can use, a Cadmium Orange. Just to add that highlight. And then again, swap to the other brush to refine the…
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Shadow-blocking in13m 59s
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Selecting our color range4m 10s
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Mixing our base colors13m 12s
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Using glazing liquid: Blending colors3m 56s
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Blocking in base colors: Sky14m 3s
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Blocking in base colors: Water14m 4s
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First painting: Using a rigger brush7m 8s
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First painting: Using smaller brushes13m 19s
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Introducing orange9m 46s
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Painting the gondola6m 20s
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Painting water10m 57s
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