Here is 'phase 2' so to speak of my current painting, which again, is more for practice than an official piece, but still, will be an official one for me. In this phase I've blocked in all the base color in the mushroom and his arms and added a few UFO's on the left side. Using a technique in the book, I gave the appearance of a 'trail fuselage' behind them, which came out better than excepted. I will be going over the eyelashes again so the trail is behind them. From here I'll continue to layer color on all the elements until the colors are deeper and fuller, and probably block in more color to the underpainting (background) as well. Phase 3 may be the final painting, well see!
In the meantime, I've been working on my blending in various ways to get a good grasp at that. The book gives some great lessons to start, then I've just been doing projects from there on my own. I realized that there are very few really good videos about blending online, e.g., YouTube. BUT I did find some other great techniques, like how to paint a mottled background, which is great for still life paintings, reminiscient of the Old master paintings. If you're interested in learning how, you can view it here. Basically, it's just practice and being very patient while doing it! :)
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