Come Be a Fly on my Studio Wall
Here’s a pictorial blog following me creating one of my ‘close up’ zebra paintings. This has been done with acrylics.
1) It starts off with a permanent black marker pen on canvas:
2) Then I add the lighter colour first in between the stripes:
3) Then comes the black stripes:
4) The stripes are finished but the eyes still need to be done:
5) Now the eyes are done and the finer details are taken care of:
6) I felt there was still something missing from this painting so I experimented with a blue wash. I liked the blue tone so much that I did about 2-3 watered down blue washes — I think it gives the painting an air of mystery and intrigue. It really pops now:
The original was sold at the beginning of 2013 but I have prints available (click on the picture below to take you to the store):
Blue Zebra — Cherie Roe Dirksen
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