New Mixed media Dog Series: My Dog has Fleas

2016 Christmas Cards

Jane Davies: Lesson 10: Make your Own Lesson

I chose to use analogous colors-- warm and cool as starts and then the opposite as the veiling color leaving some of the underpainting as a contrast and a  up to 25% focal area.  I augmented the focal busy areas with paint, water soluble crayon, pen and with collage.

Big Bold Blooms 2: Lesson 8: Spin Drawing underpainting 2nd step

 Further along : I redid/augmented  these 2 need to add finishing touches.

Jane Davies: 100 Drawing: Lesson 9: monochromatic with a up to 20% TTL focal point

BBB2: Lesson 7 Spin Drawing for the under painting

Big Bold Blooms: Lesson 6 Using chalk/pastels and a brayer makes for mud.

Didn't like this lesson and of course did not like my outcome!

Ended up spraying over a stencil to clean up this backgrounds.  Did the background several times and then would brayer over it and into the blooms and all I got were dots of pastel all over and it went brown. Gave up!  Decided I don't really like using pastels except for details!