Artist Note:
I wanted to make the radish leaves interesting. Most of my students struggle with "boring greens" in their paintings. In addition to mixing a pile of cool (added blue and white to a sap, cad yellow green, cinnabar mix), a warm (added yellow to same mix), I then added some orange, red and blue to the stems and leaves.
Do you ever use gesso?
ReplyDeleteAll of the surface I paint on have a layer of gesso before an under layer of acrylic or thinned oil paint. I like smooth surfaces so I sand things to a slick feel before painting.
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