Page 21 - The Decorative Painter Winter 2016

OIL
with Very Dark Golden Mix. Stipple to blend the values together. Add Highlight Golden Mix and Yellow Tint Basic Mix with the tip of a droplet brush. If more pizazz is needed in your golden colors, add Cadmium Yellow Pale.
Use the tip of your droplet brush to pull a few petals into the center.
STEMS AND CALYX
Block in and tap-blend the Green Values on calyx. (See the Value Placement Map on page 17.) They are a series of tiny leaves or petals.
Give form to each calyx by maintaining value change of Light Green Mix, Medium Green Mix, and Dark Green Mix using a no. 0 blender brush. For the stems, draw Light Green Mix on the left and Medium Green Mix on the right. Make them darker in the shadows.
Blend down the center of each stem. Cast shadows are applied to the right of the petals using Very Dark Green Mix.
Add Green over-strokes on some of the petals, or a glaze of green over some of the dry petals. This helps unify the color scheme.
TINY DAISIES
The petals are pulled on with a liner brush using the Blue Gray Values. Thin the paint if needed with a drop of Winsor & Newton’s Blending & Glazing Medium. (Refer to the Value Placement Map on page 17.)
TINY DAISY BUDS
Paint these with Green Values and Blue Gray Values. (Refer to the Value Placement Map on page 17.)
CORNUCOPIA VASE,continued
Using a no. 8 blender with the Soft Blue Values that were mixed be-
fore, block in and pat-blend the main body of the vase. Use a no. 2 mop to settle out individual brush marks. The Medium Soft Blue Mix on the right serves as a reflected light.
Use a no. 0 blender or a no. 2 droplet to basecoat in the rim on the vase. Blend. Add a few cast shadows on the right and sparkles of Warm White Basic Mix in the center left.
Increase the highlight on the lightest area of the vase body after the basecoat has dried by glazing on Warm White Basic Mix.
GLAZE
Adding a glaze over a dry painting allows the value changes es- tablished in the first stage to show through the glaze, which is very transparent. Moisten the area with Winsor & Newton’s Blending & Glazing Medium, and float a minuscule amount of color, whether it’s an accent color, highlight, shade, or reflected light into place. Blend the edges out into the clear glazing medium.
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