New Rhoenoak artworks
My ongoing cooperation with author John Enitsu about illustrating his novel series Rhoenoak (http://www.Facebook.com/RhoenoakBookOfficial) has brought forth some new artworks. Enjoy!
The Pear Dryad (Texture Quest III)
After masking the blossoms, I start with a wash of green on the bottom that I flick pure water into for texture. While adding cerulean blue to the cherry dryad, I do the same here and add burnt umber and ultramarine blue, dabbing one brush in all paints and making irregular strokes and spatters, adding many but harmonious colours. I like adding paint like this in early stages since it adds both pure colour and blended strokes. I keep the browns to the lower and blues to the upper and outer part. Onto a thin wash of mostly raw and burnt umber, I add cling film from the kitchen to dry with texture, which creates a kind of branch-y texture I like a lot. I do more layers with this technique. In the end I think I should've stopped before the last layer which is fairly dark, but you never know this going on so I let it sit. I work on the face with mixtures of the previous colours, and start emphasising some twig structures and bark on...
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