Keeping track of progress on creative projects
Festive holiday colors to finish the year.
The experiment here was to try two different colors for the background while using a single color (hatching and cross hatching) for the leaf. And I used a Copic C3 rather than N1 to make the shadow a little darker.
And continuing with media I haven’t used in awhile, it’s back to Copic markers. Meadow Green, Forest Green, Sky, Royal Blue and Prussian Blue. I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to do a blue and green Copic combo.
Back to gouache for the first time in awhile. These are the same colors as #86 only with the foreground and background reversed. Oh, and I did the drop shadow with a weak mix of black.
Taking the time to airbrush for the first time in awhile.
The colors are the same (more or less) as #117, except reversed. And here they’ve been applied in a watery mix onto mounting board (which I thought was illustration board until I got it out to cut it down to size). It’s an interesting experiment at least.
W&N Nut Brown and Orange made an unusually good combination, not to mention an apt celebration of the waning days of autumn.
Same brown on red color scheme as last time, only painted using wet-on-wet watercolors. I really should be doing these more often. They aren’t as time-consuming as the cross-hatched ghosts, and I love the textures and analog feeling of the watercolors. Even a digital simulation of the technique doesn’t produce visual results quite this satisfying.
W&N Deep Red and Nut Brown make a nice combination. I used a Copic Neutral Grey 1 for the shadow.
The source leaf was on the floor at Gates Barbecue when I was there recently on a blustery day. Though I usually don’t make connections between source photos and color schemes, I wanted something vaguely barbecue-esque for this one.
