#9- I carefully cur the beak area out of #10- I added some orange and purple #11- I ‘ll start working progressively,
the masking to begin the painting pro- to my yellow mixture. I found that color onto the eyes. I’ll mix some black and
cess. Like any artist I’ll tape my reference compliments are great guidelines to work blue to my white to make a dirty off white
close to me so I can easily refer back to with. Adding some purple in with the yel- so it’s not so stark. Also I want to keep
it. I started with Woody’s beak I painted low to make a shadow area. I also added my white for the highlights.
it a light white, lightly spraying the area some orange to the mixture to punch up
building up the density of highlight and the color from turning an ugly mud yel-
shadow. Next I filled my color cup of my low. I’ll cover the beak area with a yellow
Iwata HP-C with HOK yellow and misted HOK candy; it’ll unify the colors and add
it over the white base. Without first laying some snap to the color and bring out some
down a white base the color will not show depth and life to the paint. Cover the beak
up vibrantly. with the mask and move on.
#12- One of the reasons I enjoying using my #13- Not much to look at now but #14- First a light base of white so the col-
HP-C is that the color cup is easily to work with. it’s coming along nicely. I used ors actually show up then a mixture of red
I can mix up as little or as much as I need without the X-Acto knife to cut away the with a few drops of orange to punch up
a lot of waste of paint, or having to constantly red head; be careful not to score the color. I emptied my cup and added red
clean and change jars. I’ll flush out the brush too deeply into the material just with just a drop of candy blue to shade the
with reducer so my colors don’t mix. I masked enough to cut and peel away the head with. I’ll often mix my paints with
off the white of the eyes and started adding some mask. I hate leaving scoring marks candies as a shadowing technique.
white first, then covered lightly with yellow, on the surface so I’m very careful
then some green candy. I’ll paint it with Can- to only go as deep as the masking
dies mixed with HOK SG-100 Intercoat clear so material is.
build up depth, just the same as the beak. Mask
off the eye area and move on.
#15- Here’s what I mean by lightly using white to base with. I’ll paint it like a black
and white picture. Building up my highlights, Since it’s already a darker surface the
white will make a it easier to modulate form, giving it dimension.
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