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Mystery Technique #146

January 20, 2025 – 7:39 pm

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #145:

First I loaded one brush with French Ultramarine and another with Cerulean Blue, then wet the paper and quickly mixed the 2 blues wet-in-wet while carefully leaving white paper for the cloud shapes. Before the paint dried, I lifted out some wispy edges with a damp sponge. After this layer was completely dry, I gently rewet the paper and added a delicate wash of Permanent Rose to the cloud and the top of the sky, using a damp sponge to soften edges, make transitions and remove excess paint.

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Mystery Technique

Mystery Technique #142

September 20, 2024 – 9:35 pm

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #141:

I started by painting a blue sky. Before it dried, I lifted out the blue in places with a wadded-up paper towel and quickly added yellow to suggest distant foliage. After this layer dried, I painted the shape of the tree trunk with water, then added a mixed grayish brown and scratched into the wet paint with the end of a metal paint tube to add linear details. Next I added the first layer for the ground.

To make the distant foliage more dimensional, I used a modified brush to make a series of irregular green marks and added hints of branches and trunks.

I suggested the forest floor with small irregular brown and green strokes. After the painting was completely dry, I added more definition and detail with a Micron .05 black pen.

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