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MY NEXT PAINTING REFERENCE MATERIALS

 1 - Maymont 2010 - Untouched photo

FIRST A LITTLE FUN IN PHOTOSHOP

2 - Increased saturation

3 - Desaturated to black & white

4 - Subtle colour but too much surface noise (debris)

5 - Reduced surface debris

6 - Detail

All the references had potential. The black and white one, #3, was especially tasty but Im not ready for that yet so Im going to run with #5 and detail #6.  Since this is about R&D (research and development) Ill use a smaller 46x54 canvas.

Red-line

"Looking contrived" will be the major pitfall and avoiding it will be a challenge using conventional tools.....with that in mind my first session moved very quickly.

I used my whole tool box on this thing.... brushes, palette knife (a lot), all my mediums including mineral spirits to break it down even more, then working that with a palette knife. I also had some gold powder, so a dip here and there....mostly at the bottom center.

At the end of the day I had one area (circled in red) that still needed attention; plus at this point I didnt add any gold leaf details, only a bit of gold powder when I ran out of steam....

BEFORE - Red line detail
AFTER- Red line modifications + gold leaf detail

COMPLETED PAINTING

908 Winter Koi 46x54 Oil on linen (6-26-14)

SOME DETAILS