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    CLOUDY Days

    Oct 29, 2021 3 minutes

    1 Make a light wash

    I always begin a painting with a simple overall wash using any large soft brush, such as a squirrel mop. This first wash is effectively the lightest part of the painting, so I try to make it strong enough to be worth doing but not so strong that I compromise my highlights. I don’t draw anything at this stage, I simply lay in colour roughly where it is in the subject.

    Here I used a mix of Winsor Blue (Green Shade) and Quinacridone

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