Hello 2012!
Hello 2012! "August Lights" 30" x 40" x 2", May 2012 This is a piece I just completed- and now it has a mini series- literally. Someone ordered a mini size version of this. It is so cute but is not done yet! The original is being sold here: Heather Howell Art at Yessy.com To go into a little more detail on how I used the paints for this picture: There were three different types of building that I did in this painting: The first layer was the building of the depth around the edges and the light in the middle. This was done by applying light glazes of color and then creating “roughness” by scraping the paint back off. I made sure to add some softness back and depth with a paint brush before letting it dry. Second building of color - I added glazes of blues and yellow to bring out the color effect I wanted, in the lightest parts of the first layers I added a green glaze because I wanted it to lo...