Evolution Of A Painting -

 
  1. Pencil drawing of carousel horse on 140 lb. Arches paper.
  2. Darks painted first, then mid-tones and lights on its mane, wet-into-wet using purple, thalo green, quinacridone burnt orange.
  3. Green harness and leaves painted with thalo green, quinacridone gold, ultramarine blue, and thalo blue.
  4. Add same darks for eye, nose and saddle, then do reds for the bridle with pink, lilac and gold for rosettes. Add light pink for the mouth.
  5. Background painted with quinacridones, burnt orange and gold very wet. Carousel pole is also gold.
  6. Finishing touches are light hued shadows on the white horse with modeling of features using dilute warm purple and blue shadows.
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