Snow Day-Finished Painting
Here’s the finished painting: I continued to add details to the fur, finishing the wolf and then the foreground and just a suggestion of trees in the background.
Snow Day
Stage 3- Snow Day
This is Stage 3 of Snow Day: I have continued to add dark, foundational colors to the wolf. The darks are the foil for the lights. If you do not get your darks in the lights will not “pop” and add that realism that we are looking for. I built the foundation in dark greys, …
Stage 2-Snow Day
I am beginning to add color now to the wolf. I strengthen the darks with black and sepia. (I am using Polychromos which are a hard pastel). I also add some warmth with a brown soft pastel. I have also added some ultramarine blue in the shadow areas of the wolf. And the white is …
New Painting-Stage One-Snow Day
I want to show you how I painted “Snow Day”. I really enjoyed this painting of a wolf laying down enjoying the snow. I used grey velour paper as the support and a combination of hard and soft pastels. I began the painting by drawing with my black hard pastel. I like to have a …