Blue Moon Atelier Journal

Another layer of Rose Dore followed by a layer of Raw Sienna and the skin tones are mostly complete. I've got a few bits of touch-up I'll want to do, but nothing major - just some shadow and shading touch-ups and lip colour and such. I've started defining the dress a bit more, adding some Paynes Grey into the dress colour for a nice burgundy shade, and some red and green detailing on the bodice which has also had a few more layers of the gold-ish mixture. I've worked on the hair a bit more as well, and have started working on the staff and ribbons using a brown mixed from Cadmium Yellow, Rose Dore, and Paynes Grey, and Cadmium Red for the ribbons. The white band area in her hair will be an adornment of holly and pearls. Treading a bit close to the 'Mess' end of the scale, with some of the red of the dress smudged into the snow beneath her. I also see that I missed out masking the very back of her dress as it billows out, which means I'll have to scratch out the red with my craft knife in order to keep the decorative pattern flowing.



My original plan was to have some shadowy mountains in the background - I'm not sure it needs it at this point - but I will likely edit and add them with Painter X when the rest of the painting is finished to see if I should go back and add them on the watercolour original.