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Mary-El Tarot
QUEEN OF SWORDS
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Working on the composition.
Refining the anatomy.
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This is where I transferred the sketch to illustration board. This is called the underpainting stage where you establish values of light and dark. On larger paintings I will do this in oil or acrylic, in raw umber, violet, or black, but on smaller works like this will use pencil. I added some color to the eye in photoshop to see how it might look later on.
Click here to see a detail.
Added the other raven. Huginn and Muninn?
Detail.
Added the landscape, the tree, and some other birds in the air which I didn't like at all and took back out after this scan. I liked that area looking completely bleak.
This is after the first wash of burnt umber which gives me a nice midtone to work on.
The stormy sky has been painted in. 10/30/05
(Davy's Grey, Mars Black, Zinc White)
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Here we go again! The last one died for lack of gesso and so I am starting over. Here is the new one 11/8/05.
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A closer view of the finished eye.