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wanted to depict a woman and her two little boys flying from dark times
into light . . . 'Better Days Ahead' is a 7" x 9" oil on canvas
board |
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1. I hardly ever draw anything before I paint, but I had taken this little canvas board along for a car ride, and while The Boyfriend was in the store, I stayed out in the car and penciled in the first thought I had. |
2. After
returning home, I set about painting it, first black, as in the first panel,
then toning it down and adding colorful hills. |
 3. Here you can start to see what I'm going for, as I define the woman and her kids. |
 4. I paint rays around the sun, and continue to play with the colors and shape of the hills. |
 5. I start to try to light the hills on the sunny side, and create shadows in the hills and sky on the darker side. I light the trees. |
 6. Still playing with the hills, and getting paint all over my hands, since I'm using oil and well, the edges of my painting are wet. So for a while it's an exercise in smoothing paint over thumb prints ;) |
7. I brighten the sun, am finally happy with the hills, leave them in a cloud and walla! click on it :) |
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