work progress – finishing the paint step

0 comments By Kevin Filed in Uncategorized Tagged with acrylic, airbrush, colored pencils, drawing, gouache, Mackenzie, masking, new years, paint, work progress January 16th, 2010 @ 7:25 pm

Today I worked on completing the painted areas, starting where I left off yesterday, the garters. I used black gouache, thinning it a little toward the right edge for highlight. I then used the same paint for the shoes, again thinning for lighter areas. Next, I used green watercolor to paint the bottle, mixing in some black for the base and shaded areas. I added some light ochres and yellow for the foil on the top of the bottle.
I decided to once again airbrush the stockings, so I masked them off, then used a mix of flesh tone acrylics to form the shape of the legs. Once dry, I removed the masking, then began the tedious task of drawing in the pattern with dark brown colored pencil.
To finish the day, I used white gouache to highlight the shoes and bottle…