End of experiment

Done at last!

Click on the comment count below to tell me which you like best.

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Fifth

Progress on the bulls:

#1= detailed

#2= very "wet"

#3= "posterized" (fewer colors, bigger areas of color)

#4= abstracted into triangles (mostly)

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fourth

Off comes the masque!

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Third

Now that I am filling in the tree line and meadow, you can see a little more experimentation in style: to the left is more detailed and to the right is more abstract.

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2nd thing

Second thing is to start laying in the backgrounds, varying the sharpness and detail of the sky, tree trunks, manure and the bull's shadow.  Not much to see yet.

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4 versions of longhorn bull

First thing is to trace the bull on 4 pieces of watercolor paper (the cheap stuff, since this is an experiment) and masque over the bulls so that I can paint wildly (or not) on the backgrounds.

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What's next?

The new year is a time to experiment.  I am taking a fairly simple photograph (of the neighbor's longhorn) and will do a series of 5x7's with varying degrees of realism.

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She likes it!

Judy's painting is finished at last, delivered earlier this week and she likes it!

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