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Painting The Background of "Couple In Costume At Balboa Park Centennial" In Acrylics

4/24/2017

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The following is a repost from my wordpress blog.
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​Above is a photo showing the finished background of my latest painting. In this post, I'm going to tell you all about how I painted it.
​I didn't make things like the fence in the upper left hand corner or the leaves on the other side very detailed. You'll see that I painted the foliage as random shapes. That's because I wanted to create depth and if every part of the painting has the same amount of detail, it looks very flat. I used dots of white in the leaves, also, to create the look of the sun reflecting on them.
​There's also use of the glazing technique, which is applying sheer washes of color over another, in this painting. I glazed burnt umber over the grey to the right of the tree branch and purple over the building behind the couple.
​I was very happy with how the overhang came out. I used a combination of cureulean blue plus ultramarine for the shadows and I could see that my underpainting was causing the different tones to show through even before I added the shadows.
​That's it for now. I'll see you guys next time.
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