Studio Time

I managed to get back to this yesterday. Again, I’ll apologize for the image quality. I’m going to have to see if I can find some retouch varnish without an outrageous gloss to it or maybe, just wait until this is dry to get a decent photo of it. (Maybe, I should bite the bullet and upgrade my 35 year old lights and order some polarizing filters for them to replace the ones that I’ve not seen since I last moved. 🙂 It’s not really been much of an issue but I rarely shoot stuff that’s this wet.)

Anyway, I went over the edges of most everything and added some shadows with Winsor Newton’s brown madder. Brown madder is a beautiful, transparent brown color that’s great for shading things. It’s a fairly intense dark that easily blends to a transparent brown. It’s similar to burnt sienna though it’s not quite as red. I fell in love with the watercolor version… a color that can do amazing things in an airbrush. The color is a little different but it’s nicely useful in both mediums.

I brushed into that with Winsor Newton’s cadmium yellow deep and highlighted that with Rembrandt’s brilliant yellow light. I think they’ve discontinued brilliant yellow, renamed it or whatever. It’s not a color I use all that often and frankly, I’m trying to finish off the tube. It seems a little “under-powered”. 🙂 This phase of a painting always seems like a good place to do that.

It’s occurred to me that there are no cars on this street. 🙂 I suppose that means I’ll have to do another one… a series.