This week, I finished painting the clouds behind the hills on my mural. You might recall that I wasn’t sure last week if I wanted to make these clouds round and fluffy like the ones in the sky, or more wispy like they are in the reference I’m using. I decided that I could make the clouds wispy while still maintaining the style I’ve been using throughout the mural. I used a light blue base and went in with dry-brushed white paint until the clouds looked soft, thick and matched the rest of the mural’s style. Despite my previous struggles with allowing the three canvases to flow together, particularly at the edges where they meet, I found that doing these clouds wasn’t too difficult—possibly because of the simplicity of them, or because I’ve not blended the canvases together multiple times. It’s likely a combination of both and I hope that I find the next layer of the painting just as hassle-free. Next week I’ll be starting the grass in the fields below. I think the grass will present an interesting challenge, with matching the tone of the mural and not making the green too bright, as well as with figuring out how I’m going to go about the texture. As some of the field is far back, it may not all be detailed, but I might want to work in some individual shards and I’ll have to see what I like and how to execute it.
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AuthorLeah is an eighteen-year-old aspiring Canadian artist who enjoys drawing, painting, and photography. |