Animal and Wildlife Art Lessons

"Lioness"

By Jason Morgan

3 - Transferring to Toned Canvas and Underpainting

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This detail shows the importance of having a toned canvas, imagine how different and less solid the painting would look if the canvas was white. Even at this early stage I follow the fur direction with my brush strokes.

I continue blocking in the body in the same way I did the head , the main colours I am using here are different combinations of - Naples Yellow, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Titanium White and Cadmium Yellow, plus Alizarin Crimson and Ultramarine Blue which I add to the body colour to grey the fur on the shadow areas (i.e. red and blue = purple, which is yellows compliment, so greys it).

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