This exercise is an open scene; after the exercise is finished items may be placed into the landscape in silhouette form. When doing this you will be able to place the item or items where ever they look good without covering the good bits of the background.
By cutting the silhouette out of black paper you can hold it near the painting and see how it looks in various positions before painting the image onto the painting.
Do not use Black, mix a dark color from your Blue and Crimson but be sure no White gets into the mixture.
When painting the sky keep all your brush strokes in the one direction (across and slightly up) Finish the lower, brighter part of the sky before adding the darker colors into the top of the sky, we do not want the Blue on your brush to get into the lower sky.
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Hello Len
Just a word of thanks for your painting lessons. It is amazing to be able to do a painting in 10-15 minutes! Love it.
Had a question regarding inserting silouttes (sic) ..does one use a black peice of paper with cut-outs? I am not good a painting them…Just askin”
Thanks again!!
If you cut out silhouettes (i had to look up the spelling) from black paper or card, you can place them over your painting and move them around till you get the desired arrangement, then trace the shape onto your painting and fill it in with paint. Do not use black or it might look like a hole in your painting. Mix your dark colors to make black but there must not be any white in it. Burnt Sienna and blue make a good black.
Thank You so much!!
Looking forward to new exercide lessons… When I can, I want to order the DVD’s..
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jeriem g. kho you can go to http://lenhend.com/products-page and purchase from there.