As promised in the earlier post, this is stage 3, initial block-in. Working color-by-color.
First, blue:
Then green:
Then more green:
And a little more brown:
At this point I tried to use glazes to modulate the base colors, but it wasn't working the way I had intended. So, instead, I decided to pre-mix my palette (yellow into brown into green into blue) and painting alla prima. These are the result:
I gave them a day to sit, and gave them one more pass. I'm pretty pleased with the way they came out:
Now it just remains to see how the client likes them.
I'm greatly beholden to James Gurney for his idea of Sky Panels, and learned quite a lot in the process of painting these. Thanks Ana!
