Painting a fox and it’s reflection…
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| ‘Pond Pause’ Pastel on velour, 14″x21″ |
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| Close up |
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| Reference photo courtesy of Ken Broadmore www.flickr.com/photos/61688739@N02 |
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| Roughly sketched out I begin the background moving forward in the composition |
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| I’m using lots of red through his coat so he’ll really stand out amongst the greens |
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| Always good to get the face in, gives me someone to look at! |
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| I like to treat reflection pieces like 2 seperate paintings. I do the top half first and then using the same palette I very loosely mirror image this for the reflection. I’ve layered in the darks here first, and I’ll layer up the colours dark to light with loose marks to replicate ripples. |