This week I’ve been adding and blending a variety of colors for the feathers on Hilda’s head grabbing different shades of color from her eyes. I’ll be using these colors for her entire body. I’ve also used a couple of different brushes and opacity of those brushes. I started with setting in the basic colors for shadows and highlights using a solid round brush with no hardness. Be sure to vary your opacity. Once I have that done then I go back over it with a darker spatter brush to add depth and texture. Again making sure I vary size and opacity. Then do the same with white to create the highlights of the feathers. Some strokes are smeared and some are just a simple quick click in one spot to get the effect of feathers.
As you can see here in a close up, I’m not trying to paint each individual feather, just the suggestion of them.
I’ll be spending a lot more time on her wings so please be patient with me. As much as I would love to do this every day, work gets in my way.
I also have to make a hunting fairy this weekend out of clay for my grandson, Dawson. I’ll post pics when I get him done.
Until next week.
Thanks, Ann