I watched this video by Paul Clark. My intentions were to wait for a craft store to open so I could get masking fluid . . . . so in the meantime I lightly sketched my bee shape - Which BTW looked NOTHING like the finished painting!!!
I decided to do a light bg wash and mixed yellow, brown and a touch of gray with lots of water and painted around my bee. Next I figured to add in daisy-like flower but WHAT IS HAPPENING - my color is weeping and seeping and bleeding everywhere . . .
I should probably add here that I tend to be a VERY controlled painter - partly because I am OCD and partly because the Humidity tends to be about 6% - 10% here most days. I check my weather app - today it is 52% !!! Oh well . . .
I head to the yellow stripes which of course immediately bloom outside the sketch lines - but my mind blanks out the "higher humidity syndrome" and I pick up black for the alternate stripes - OMG - these 2 colors are dancing a tango and it is a fight to the death of frantic color lifting to keep some semblance of yellow stripes on my bee. Once I sort of had stripes again, I used a toothpick to pull out the tiny hairs for the fluffy, fuzzy look. I dried my piece then dried some more when the legs did their own thing too. Finished with a bit of detail on the wings keeping it super simple because by now I am scared of humidity - lol - and I never did get the masking fluid . . . .
Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 GMT Views: 1356
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You have totally made me smile with your description! I would not have guessed there was paint anywhere you did not intend it to go. This painting leaps off the gallery page. Exquisite! I love his legs because, in reality, they do dance around their flowers getting pollen on their legs!