Now I will focus on the faces, with transparent black I add the color to get my skin color base.With the same technique used
main shadows.With transparent brown, I come back over the for the fabrics, I paint the girl’s dress. Notice the light coming it
black shadows and continue to build the bodies. To shade all
the doorway and how nicely that worked out.
the colors together, I spray a light coat of semi opaque coral
With transparent black and brown, I increase the contrast be- the hair by following the natural movement. I usually don’t work
tween the light and the dark areas of each character. I also put like this to build hair in paintings but my character will get many
transfer paper on the skin where I don’t want any overspray plaits, so no need to work layer after layer here.With white and
and prepare to work on the hair.With pure black, I quickly spray sword brush, I paint each plait.
When each plait is finished, I come back
over them with transparent black. I spray
the paint between each plait; by letting
the overspray come over the plaits and
shade it into the rest of the hair. I also
darken some area’s to add more depth to
the plaits.When it’s done, I take back my
white paint and sword brush and come
back over a few of the plait’s to include a
ribbon. I just have to spray different trans-
parent colors to add some color to each.
The same technique’s where used for the
woman in the hammock as the two char-
acters and the fabrics I painted.
Here are pictures
of the completed
mural. I hope you
can use some of
the techniques I
presented here in
your own work.
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