Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Bike Shadows

12x9 watercolor on Canson 140 lb cold press paper using my ink sketch done first .  Using no photo reference I quickly laid in a background wash of primaries arylide yellow, ultramarine blue, and permanent rose.  When dry, I used dry brush technique to put in flowers (parrot tulips mostly) and do details on this blue bike.  Its shadows were very important so that area painted with a mix of alizarin crimson and ultramarine blue.  The blue bike's color is cobalt.
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