Work in Progress Update, Eatonton, Georgia, Residence, Update 4

In this Update the rendering of the Home is complete. The brickwork has been painted in, lawn has been added and the tree trunks completed. A bit more shading in the portico and curtains has also been added.

First, the brick chimneys and walk were painted in. Here, cadmium red, raw umber and burnt umber were mixed to give the reddish – brown color I felt it needed. I painted in three or four washes to get the depth and intensity, tweaking it with a bit more red or umber with each wash to bring it to the final color. The washes were done wet on dry.

In between, I re-drew the lion statues on the pedestals and then inked them in.

Using hooker’s green, raw sienna and ultramarine blue in various combinations I washed in the lawn on both sides, wet on dry, quickly and simply indicating grass.

Next, using thin washes of paynes grey, I underlined each row of siding on the house, giving some shading under each board. A bit of shading was added to each lion statue and more detail to the curtains in the windows. More washes were also added to the portico to increase depth.

Finally, the tree trunks were painted in with thin washes of raw umber and some more pen and ink line work was added to the tall tree on the right.

This completes the pen and ink and watercolor rendering of a Home Portrait of a residence in Eatonton, Georgia. It will be matted and framed, then added to a display of my paintings now hanging at Brannen Bank in Dunnellon, Florida.

The subject for my next painting is an Osprey. It’s a commission piece from a photo taken by the client on Lover’s Key, off the west coast of Florida. I’m going to do something different in my approach to this painting, so stay tuned.