Maggie (commissioned dog portrait) by Linda Young

copyright Linda Young 2012
Maggie

The actual color of the watercolor paper is white; but doesn't appear that way in  this photograph.  In addition, I totally forgot to take a picture of the dog portrait with all the mask off of it!  I was going to post a photo of the painting with the mask taken off showing before and after; but I didn't even remember.   I've been dealing with a very bad cold and it's caused me to lose work for a day and to sleep alot.  I can blame my absentmindedness on that, okay?

After the mask was removed on Maggie, I really increased the values and used a variety of colors on it today.  In this stage, which I'm calling the third stage wash and details, the following colors were used:

Cobalt Blue, Burnt Sienna, Fr. Ultramarine Blue, Raw umber, Burnt Umber, Quinacridone Gold, Quinacridone Red, Rose Madder Genuine, Cerulean Blue.

This will be put in a place so I can view it for awhile to evaluate .

What will be the next step?   Probably, the background or softening some edges...we'll see

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