Today's painting project. (15/8/2024)

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I did some more watercolour painting today. I did some work on all 3 paintings. First of all I put some shadows in on the painting that was almost finished from last week. Then I did some work on the second painting from last week that was about half done. I painted in the guys shirt and trousers. I decided to use complimentary colours like I was taught at art class in Wall. As I'd already painted the curtains red I decided to use it's complementary, which is green. So I painted the shirt green and the trousers I also painted red, but I made it a lot lighter by adding more water to the colour so it didn't look exactly the same colour as the curtains. I gave the guy blonde hair, and I let that all dry before I painted his face and neck. I had a bit of trouble getting the right colour for that. Then I added darker green to the back of the shirt for shadow, and darker red for the back of the trousers. I added some more shadow behind the chap. When the trousers were dry I painted in his shoes dark grey (you can hardly tell it's not black.) I also added a bit of shadow on the edge of the window seat on which he's sitting, but letting the yellow ochre of the seat show through. I painted the cup that he's left on the window sill green, and the same with the jug that's on the plate rack above the curtains. I left the ceiling inbetween the wooden beams as the white of the paper. I added some green tie backs on the curtains and added some grey stripes in the curtains to represent where the folds are. Lastly I added the lines in the shutter, but I think I may have overdone it. Then I went onto the third painting. On Tuesday I'd drawn in an ornate chair infront of the window from a reference photo that I got from the copyright free site on the internet. The first thing I did when I came to paint this third painting was the curtains again. This time I decided to do a split complementary colour scheme. I chose blue violet as my main colour. The split complementary colours for blue violet are green and orange if I remember rightly. I painted the curtains in blue violet. When the curtains were drying I started on the chair. The ends of the armrests and the edges at the top and bottom of the chair are kinda brass I think, but on my reference photo it looks greeny, so I mixed a green that I thought matched that and I painted those in. While I was doing that the curtains were drying, so when they were dry I painted in the sky outside the window. When I'd done that my chair arms and edges were dry. I added dark grey lines over parts of the chair arms that I'd already painted so it looks like light is reflecting. I painted the far hills on the view outside the window. I painted the back of the chair with a kind of orange colour with a bit of brown in. I did the cushion a little darker with burnt sienna. A slightly darker version of the orange/brown was used for shadow. I also painted in the floorboards. I painted in the trees in the view outside the window. I also painted in the buildings and what I presume are haystacks. I used a mixture of green and blue to paint the wall behind the chair. I painted in the details in the back of the chair, where the buttons are. I did the lines first, then let them dry before putting a blob of raw sienna at each connecting spot where the buttons would be, then putting shadowy bits below them. I let that dry before before putting in dark grey dots for buttons. I painted in the foreground in the view outside the window. I painted in the people last. I'm no good at people, and I think it shows! Then I called it finished. (See picture above.) Before I send these, and the other ones I did, off to the London Art Course, I'm going to put them under a heavy book to flatten them out because they're bending up at the sides! So, that's what I've been doing today. What have you lot been getting up to? I hope you are all well. Have a great night.