May 15th, Recipe for a Sunrise
Ingredients:
11 x 14 Sheet of Bristol
Colored Chalk
Colored Pencils
Workable Fixatif
How To:
Form the general shape of your landscape & smudge around
Form the colors of your sky & smudge around
Add the ground
Spray with workable fixatif
Add detail with colored pencil
Spray again
Now for the picture version:
Sorry the color is off in one or two of them, I got impatient. :(
Outline of some trees + shadows
Smudge the trees & add some sky
Add more sky & smudge
Close-up on one of the trees
Close-up on the others
Adding darker blue to sky
Adding some light blue
The picture at this point
Some gold to the sky
A touch of red on the edges of the clouds
Brown as a base color for the ground
Smudge & add black for the shadows
Smudge
Some clean-up smudging & we're ready to spray
Add details with colored pencil
Some texture to the ground
Tree branches
Tree branches
In a broad sense, do the large smooth areas with chalk, and then do the detail with colored pencils. As far as colors go, the sunrise is alot of dark blue, light blue, peach, gold, with little bits of orange or red to add flavor. The trees are black & brown, as is the ground. The colored pencils I used were a light brown, dark brown, a black, and a tan/gold. I haven't yet messed around with putting white or light colored pencil over dark chalk, but that's on the experiments list. Perhaps there will be post on that later.
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Now for the picture version:
Sorry the color is off in one or two of them, I got impatient. :(
Outline of some trees + shadows
Smudge the trees & add some sky
Add more sky & smudge
Close-up on one of the trees
Close-up on the others
Adding darker blue to sky
Adding some light blue
The picture at this point
Some gold to the sky
A touch of red on the edges of the clouds
Brown as a base color for the ground
Smudge & add black for the shadows
Smudge
Some clean-up smudging & we're ready to spray
Add details with colored pencil
Some texture to the ground
Tree branches
Tree branches
In a broad sense, do the large smooth areas with chalk, and then do the detail with colored pencils. As far as colors go, the sunrise is alot of dark blue, light blue, peach, gold, with little bits of orange or red to add flavor. The trees are black & brown, as is the ground. The colored pencils I used were a light brown, dark brown, a black, and a tan/gold. I haven't yet messed around with putting white or light colored pencil over dark chalk, but that's on the experiments list. Perhaps there will be post on that later.
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