![]() Load your palette in: phthalo blue, turquoise and phthalo green. Paint the bottom dark blue/turquoise areas Keep painting the feathers downwards and stop when you get to about the wing/chest area. The trick is to get different color variations of the yellow and white with small bits of red. Continue to paint this “feather texture” as you work your way down the neck. Occasionally load your brush in small amounts of white and paint short, angled strokes going in a downward direction. Let the red and yellow gently blend together but try not to over blend. ![]() Paint short strokes going diagonally down. Paint the neck starting next to the face area. Without rinsing your round brush, load it into the yellow (you now have red and yellow on your brush but don’t mix the colors on the palette, they will blend on the canvas). Then load cadmium yellow medium hue onto your palette. Mix white with the red so that you get a lighter red. Then paint the waddle using the same red and white combo. Optional: add bits of white to it and blend it into the red for highlighting. Outline the shape and fill it in the direction of the shape. Paint the entire comb on the rooster’s head. Load your palette with pyrrole red and titanium white. Paint the comb, waddle and around the eye Then draw a horizontal beam that slightly overlaps the vertical post. Draw two vertical lines to complete the fence post width. Then lightly draw the fence post with a pencil. Position the rooster so the back tail feathers are on the right edge of the canvas. Print out the rooster template and place a sheet of graphite paper below. Wait for your background to dry before going onto the next step. Add light blue violet towards the top of the canvas so that the background gets slightly darker at the top. The paint should be relatively a thin coat of paint. Work your way up the canvas, blending an abstract background. When you go to reload your brush, you can load different amounts of white and light blue on the brush to let it have “color variation”. Stat on the bottom of the canvas and paint in “X” style strokes so the two colors blend on the canvas. ![]() ![]() Then mix about equal parts titanium white and light blue permanent. Load you 3/4″ flat wash brush in titanium white. Load your palette with: light blue permanent, light blue violet and titanium white. ![]()
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