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Birthday Present for our Grand Daughter
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She asked my wife if Grampy would do a polar bear painting for her bedroom wall. That's her thing at the moment. I have had to decide on either a jokey cartoonish or serious version, but she's nearly 10 and reads and studies well, she's gone off pink, so there's growing sensible stuff happening. I have just started a serious one on a 40 x30cm block canvas.
I have thickly gessoed the lower section as that will be rough snow, needing (my plan A) some pale blues here and there.
First I chose a bear image from the web and transferred it lower left.
A piece of masking tape defined a clean horizon and I mixed two inks, Indigo/Dioxazine Purple with water, wet the sky area and poured the mixture and then wiped it to get a cloud effect.
I can't get any further with it today, but tried Ultramarine blue down from the horizon using my cards.
In progress
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Polar bear - coo: my great niece settled for a version of Peppa Pig for her last birthday, which was not, shall we say, the most severe challenge with which I have ever been confronted. Your grand-daughter is that much older, and obviously more demanding.... but this is looking good, so I'm sure she'll be pleased.
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Two further stages in one, as I messed up by not following the strong blue mass all over. Attempted to cancel it out using mixture of Transparent white/Yellow Ochre, then
Ultramarine Blue/ Transparent white The animal will have ragged edges in many places so doesn't have to be clean lined. Becoming a chore as I work quickly and want to finish it, be calm and composed Derek hah! LOL.
