Making of an acrylic painting: I'll just disappear, allright?

in #art7 years ago (edited)

This time I will show you the process of painting an acrylic picture – inspired by @dcrockete second weekly contest.

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And yes, it all starts with a sketch.
This sketch is made with a light grey watercolour pencil, so I can remove it with water. I roughly drew the background, the architecture, and the main figure. The next step was to mark some of the shadows and highlights (still with the watercolour pencil).

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Now I start with the acrylic paint. I only need three colours: white, black and a little bit of cobalt blue. The blue is necessary to make a cold grey; mixing only black and white results in a brownish grey. Firstly, I painted the sky, followed by the hills. I already made a lighter area on the hills, where later houses will be filled in.

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Step three is painting the architecture. To get two very straight lines I masked the lower end of the image and the dark part of the wall with tape. The other lines I painted by hand, because I think to many sharp lines make the picture sterile and dead.

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After drying the paint with a blow dryer, I started on the main figure. I began with the legs and arms…

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And finished with the clothes. The last details are some colour highlights. For the hair, I used a light blue, for the shoulders a light pink and dark green for the skirt. All colours are muted with white and black.

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Finishing Touches are painting the town in the background and drawing a thin white glaze over the mountains.

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Once again thanks to @dcrockete !! I had so much fun 😊

If you have questions, feel free to ask!

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This post got a 19.37 % upvote thanks to @aurealistic - Hail Eris !

Amazing! I love the way you take care of every detail.

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I followed the above and read some of the post, but so long I am not totally sure how voting bots function (and if its moraly ok) But hopefully i will get it someday :-)
By the way, your music (the post about the instrumentalization of musicians in venezuela) is really great!!! (Your writing too, also informative, but I do not know enough to write a coherent reply... sadly)