Painting in Progress |
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Watch how each painting takes form with step by step pictures: |
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| "Spring" | "Brook Trout" |
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Day 1- Sketched out Brook Trout in pen and ink, then transfer sketch onto illustration board. |
Day 2- I transferred trout to ill. board. Then I blocked in color of the water and rock and gravel areas. Next I started to work on putting in shadow areas beneath the gravel in right hand corner. |
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Day 3 - I continue working on the gravel and building up the areas of dark. Plus, I begin blocking in the trout. |
Day 4 - I worked over the fish adding more color and slowly built up dark and middle tones of the gravel. |
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Day 5 - I have darken the gravel and started to add high lights to the it also. The rocks that are farther away have been given a bluer appearance. I have also built up the trout's color and detail. Plus, I added several washes of a bluish green over the water area above the trout. |
Day 6 - I continue to work over the gravel and trout. Then I Started building the ripples into the surface water over the fish. |
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Day 7 - I have added more of a highlight color to the gravel and trout. I have also worked a little more on the ripple area. |
"Prize Fighter" - 9"x 12" -Acrylic on ill. board - 2006 Delaware Trout Stamp Entry |