The cute little steiner shop at sonny's school is lookin for an image of a pukeko to use on a new business card. I have been volunteering on wednesday afternoons for the last two terms and finally made it to a "shop meeting" last week, so was privvy to discussions of searching for said image of said bird. I have been having a play with a set of watercolour paints and have hated all attempts. I have always used oils, being somewhat of a painting snob, and am finding watercolours frustrating to the max... but tonight i have had a breakthrough. YES the key, as i have found, is to use much thinner VEILS of colour, and build up vividness in that way...
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well done he looks great!!
yeah the trick is to make it about 3 to 5 layers deep and the first layer looks nothing like your final picture, you lay down shading first and then the picture and then the final layer is highlighting with like white and it brings the whole thing to life. im so excited that you have gotten into this. keep me posted i wanna see more xxx
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