Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Easter Porch Board - Admitting Mistakes

Needs work! 

This is a four foot board about 10" wide. 
First it was washed with light blue. Let that dry. Then sketched the Gnome in chalk. Mistake? I used bright pink chalk that was hard to cover & hard to wipe the extra off. 
After sketching it was just coloring in. 

If I had to do over here's my list of needed corrections or changes;

Darker background
Hat bigger/longer
Background beard with violet before adding long white hair so it has more depth. 
The green in the hat needs to be smoother. 
Lettering would have been better if the background was darker or done on the Silhouette so they're more even.
Easter Egg needs to be decorated. 
Hands outlined

When working in a width of 10 inches you have to keep everything narrow. If I was painting this on a wider piece I would have had more room to make the hat a little floppy and made ears angle off to the side and maybe a few more eggs around him. I did decide on purple shoes because there's a little green grass by his feet. I almost gave him a pink hat but that would have had to be darker than the ears and nose. Not sure that would have popped too much/little. 

Next? I need a bunny on a porch board.